BERLIN—Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and their Social Democrat partners have delayed until next year a decision on security rules for Germany’s 5G mobile network that could bar China’s Huawei, a highly divisive issue in an unhappy alliance.
Merkel’s right-left government, under pressure from the United States to bar Huawei, wants to toughen technical certification and scrutiny of telecom equipment suppliers, without excluding any specific country or vendor.
