State Department's Pompeo Urges EU Wariness of Chinese 5G Suppliers

The EU shouldn't ignore U.S. urgings that it create national standards on potential network-based threats to privacy, security and intellectual property when it discusses 5G safeguards this week in Brussels, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote Monday for Politico. China's Huawei has a troubling business track record of ties to the Chinese People's Liberation Army, bribery and IP theft, but securing 5G goes further than blocking any one company from building those networks, he wrote. Huawei didn't comment. Pompeo said such suppliers as Nokia, Samsung and Ericsson don't pose the same dangers as Chinese companies.