US attorney-general calls for stakes in Ericsson and Nokia to counter Huawei
William Barr says China is the US’s ‘top geopolitical adversary’
06 February 2020 - 22:33
Washington — Calling China the biggest threat to America, US attorney-general William Barr said on Thursday the US should consider putting its “financial muscle” behind Finland’s Nokia and Sweden’s Ericsson to counter Huawei’s dominance in next-generation 5G telecoms technology.
In a remarkable statement underscoring how far the US may be willing to go to counter Huawei, Barr said in a speech to a Washington think-tank conference on Chinese economic espionage there had been proposals to meet the concerns “by the US aligning itself with Nokia and/or Ericsson”...
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