The US campaign against Huawei intensifies. After threatening its European partners last weekend at the Munich Security conference to stop sharing intelligence if they don't exclude the Chinese tech giant from their 5G networks, State Department number two Robert Strayer has embarked on a tour some European capitals to rivet the message and warn of its consequences.
Strayer has insisted that if countries decide to use "unreliable technology" in their 5G networks, that "will jeopardize" Washington's ability to share information "at the highest level," including defense and NATO. .
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"We know that there are reliable and reliable suppliers with technology at the height of Huawei, which are Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung. In the United States we are using these companies to deploy 5G in dozens of cities," Strayer said Thursday at the United States Embassy in Madrid.
The Deputy Secretary of State of the United States and responsible for cyber and international information and communications policy, has held meetings with the private sector, regulators and authorities, among which are the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation and Foreign Affairs . In his opinion, "it should not be the telecommunications operators that make these important national security decisions, they should be the governments," Strayer said. The number two of the State Department has celebrated that Telefónica has announced that it will reduce its contact with the Chinese company.
The EU has warned that each country will make its own decisions regarding Huawei and that there is no a priori veto to the technology giant, which Washington has not liked.
Strayer's visit also occurs days after the Spanish government approved the creation of a tax on the activity of large technology companies - known as the Google rate - and that the threat of new tariffs to tax products such as Oil, wine or cheese by the Donald Trump Administration has hit the Spanish agri-food sector. The senior US official wanted to separate the commercial and security fields.
The US representative asks the Twenty-seven to comply with the regulatory framework approved by Brussels last January, where it poses restrictions on access to certain sectors for suppliers considered "high risk". "In China there is no rule of law, there is no independent judicial system and the Chinese Communist Party can order a supplier like Huawei or ZTE to take actions that are not in the interest of Spanish citizens or around the world," Strayer has indicated.
"It is an unfortunate consequence of the fact that we cannot put our important information at risk of being accessible to the Chinese Communist Party," Strayer added.