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Senator tells MPs Huawei puts US troops at risk

2020-06-03 14:18:21, , BBC News

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640

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30

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6.40 min

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Advanced

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16th or higher

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It will determine whether new US sanctions against the firm – which ban Huawei from using computer chips made or designed with US equipment – pose an unmanageable risk to British network providers' use of the firm's kit.

He added that as the US continued to build up forces in the Pacific, the case for keeping some US Air Force assets in the UK was already contested in Washington, and if Huawei was used in the UK infrastructure there would be an operational risk that would not be faced in other places.

But he claimed that using Huawei in the UK infrastructure could "give PLA [China's People's Liberation Army] hackers a window into our military logistics operations", which could put US forces and American weapons systems based in England "at dangerous risk".

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One of Huawei's leading critics, US Senator Tom Cotton, has told UK MPs that he fears China is trying to use the telecoms equipment-maker to "drive a hi-tech wedge between us".

"The committee was given no evidence to substantiate security allegations."'Hackers' window'Mr Cotton is among a group of US lawmakers pressing the UK to ban Huawei.

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