Trump cyber diplomat warns Europe against using Huawei for 5G
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He also says that the competing network companies are technologically on par. What you need to know During a visit to Portugal, a diplomat working on information policy urged a European Huawei ban. Robert Strayer was appointed by Trump but has a long career in telecom law. Strayer has suggested the Chinese government could force Huawei to insert backdoors. A diplomat with President Trump`s State Department is urging European nations to ban Huawei equipment as they build out 5G networks. Reuters quotes Robert Strayer saying that `there is no way to fully mitigate any type of risk except the use of trusted vendors from democratic countries.` Strayer is deputy assistant secretary for cyber, international communications and information policy at the U.S. State Department, appointed by the president in 2017. According to his official biography, he hasbeen working in telecommunications law for 17 years. He has recently focused on the question of China`s Communist Party`s control over ...