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There’s Far Less Bang in a Huawei Ban Now
New U.S. sanctions on China's biggest technology company will make its equipment less desirable anyway.
Getting squeezed.
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It’s easy to ban a product that’s difficult to get your hands on anyway.
That’s why Britain’s possible move to impose a stricter ban on Huawei Technologies Co. seems opportunistic, even if it does now make sense. It’s taking advantage of harsher U.S. sanctions on the Chinese telecoms-equipment giant to consider extending the U.K.’s halfway measures unveiled with great fanfare in January. A final decision will come after the government’s National Cyber Security Centre reviews implications for the security of the country’s phone networks.