Berlin — The UK is heading for a damaging showdown with China as it takes on Beijing over Hong Kong and Huawei Technologies.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has criticised Beijing’s planned imposition of a security law on the former British territory of Hong Kong, and is taking steps to exclude Huawei from its fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks by lining up potential replacements...

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