At Gathering of Spy Chiefs, U.S., Allies Agreed to Contain Huawei

It's absolutely the case that they have been doing this for at least 3-4 years already. I am personally aware of at least one case in Australia where the relevant authorities approached a major telco who were in discussion with Huawei for purchasing of next-generation wireless gear and told them in no uncertain terms - that if they did buy Huawei they may face issues having their license renewed.

Of course, for real security they should treat every device as compromised on arrival (ie. treat Cisco as just as bad as Huawei) and mandate heterogeneous multi-vendor infrastructure with aggressive anomaly detection, zero architectural SPOFs, and other defense in depth mitigations / failsafes.

Amusing because US and Israeli manufactured technology has been proven to be backdoor'ed. And Silicon Valley has close ties to the American military, just as close as Huawei. Make no mistake about it. Allies today perhaps but as recent history has proven anything can happen.

The European Union has been sleeping on this. In economic warfare there are no friendlies.

I don’t know what is going on, no factual basic for this, but I have a gut feeling that this is more likely economic warfare to try to contain China. No matter where telecom equipment is manufactured it should be tested for security flaws.