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On July 14, the UK announced that from next year it will be illegal for telecoms operators to buy 5G equipment from Huawei. Operators must remove all existing Huawei 5G kit by 2027. The Observer reports that, in the days before the announcement, government officials briefed Huawei that the motivations behind the decision were partly geopolitical. The Trump administration was exerting pressure on the...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the BBC that Chinese tech giant Huawei has compromised US national security. Schmidt is an advisor on the US government's Defense Innovation Board. The US government has repeatedly accused Huawei of spying for the Chinese government, which Huawei denies. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt thinks China has used tech giant Huawei...