US Warns European Allies Not to Use China’s Huawei for 5G Networks

US Warns European Allies Not to Use China’s Huawei for 5G Networks
A surveillance camera next to a sign of Huawei outside a shopping mall in Beijing on Jan. 29, 2019. Jason Lee/Reuters
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BRUSSELS—The United States sees the European Union as its top priority in a global effort to convince allies not to buy Huawei equipment for next-generation mobile networks, a U.S. State Department Official said on Feb. 5.

After meetings with the European Commission and the Belgian government in Brussels, U.S. officials are set to take a message to other European capitals that the world’s biggest telecommunications gear maker poses a security risk, said the official, who declined to be named.