Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision last week to accept Chinese telecommunications equipment in British networks will give the rest of Europe cover to follow. This is a blow to U.S. efforts to exclude Huawei and ZTE, two of China’s leading telecom companies, from allied nations for security reasons. It also underscores a fundamental problem with the U.S. approach: the lack of a compelling alternative to Chinese systems. To turn the tide in Europe and the rest of the world, the U.S. must exploit new technologies developed...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 06, 2020 00:00 UTC