> France has as well, as they said that all suppliers will be treated equally and subject to the same security tests.
This is the bit that gets me. I simply don't believe you would approve a supplier with a question mark over them without running it past GCHQ/MI5/MI6 ect..... Presumably Germany and France did the same thing with their security services.
It leaves me wondering if the US know something their 3 closest allies don't or if their position is purely economic/ideological.
I guess it's mostly ideological. The US has been spying on europeans for _years_. All these leaks by Snowden showed really good how they threat europeans.
Everything which has been leaked can't be used anymore. So if you want to continue spying on telecommunications you need to have some control. There's nothing more easy than a smearing campaign against the only other big telecommunications vendor and putting some pressure on the decision makers behind curtains.
For any european country there's no difference between spying equipment from the US or China.
This monopoly had ended and that makes some people uncomfortable.
> Both Germany and the UK have cleared Huawei to take put in 5g rollouts
France has as well, as they said that all suppliers will be treated equally and subject to the same security tests.