I hope the British government will design its networks to protect the networks: Jens Stoltenberg
London:
The head of the NATO military alliance said on Wednesday that the West could not ignore China’s rise to power and that it was therefore important that Britain reviewed the role of Huawei in its 5G network for keep him safe.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that China is approaching the West in a number of ways – in the Arctic, in cyberspace and in essential infrastructure, including telecommunications.
“I hope the UK government will design its networks to protect the networks and ensure that the UK has secure 5G networks,” Stoltenberg told the BBC radio.
“Therefore, I also think it is important that there is now a re-examination examining exactly how to make sure this happens,” he said.
Asked about Stoltenberg’s comments, spokesmen for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Hua Chunying, said that China posed no threat to any country.
“We hope that NATO can continue to have a correct opinion of us and to consider our development in a rational way,” she said.
As part of a broader reassessment of relations with China, the British National Cyber Security Center analyzes the impact of recent US sanctions on Britain’s decision earlier this year to allow Huawei to play a role in building its 5G network.
In January, Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave Huawei a limited role in the British 5G mobile network, thwarting a global attempt by the United States to exclude the Chinese telecommunications giant from next-generation communications from the West.
Challenging Britain’s closest ally in favor of China on the eve of Brexit, Johnson held that “high-risk sellers” such as Huawei [HWT.UL] would be allowed in non-sensitive parts of the 5G network.
But the coronavirus epidemic, the disagreements over Hong Kong and the anger of US President Donald Trump against China have prompted Britain to reassess its relations with Beijing.
“China is getting closer to us, we see that in the Arctic, we see that they are investing heavily in essential infrastructure in Europe, and we of course see China also operating in cyberspace,” said Stoltenberg.
“So it’s not about deploying NATO in the South China Sea, but responding to the fact that China is getting closer to us.”
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, France, Britain and other Western European states to provide collective security against the Soviet Union . The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
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