The US wants NATO allies to spend their new defence budgets ripping out Huawei
The US has found a new use for Europe’s swelling defence budgets: tearing out Huawei. Whether its allies are listening is another matter.
The State Department’s China coordinator, Joshua Young, told officials in Brussels last month that NATO members should use defence-related funding, the spending that counts towards the alliance’s targets, to rip out Huawei equipment and replace it with other vendors’ gear, Bloomberg reported.
Young did not name countries, but one person said the remarks were aimed at Germany.
The reception was cool.
The comments came from a relatively junior diplomat, and allies, who have grown used to contradictory signals from the Trump administration, did not respond on the spot, according to people familiar with the closed-door meeting. The State Department declined to comment.
The idea leans on NATO’s new finances.
Almost all members agreed last year to lift defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP, 3.5 per...
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