A U.S. delegation at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week is trying to dissuade European telecommunication firms from investing in Huawei’s 5G cellular technology, saying it could be "potentially compromised by the Chinese government.” Huawei, meanwhile, is on its own campaign to put those concerns at rest. Photo: Getty ImagesBARCELONA—Officials from the U.S. State Department and America’s telecommunications regulator publicly outlined their campaign to exclude Huawei Technologies Co. from allies’ next generation communications networks, calling the Chinese equipment-maker “duplicitous and deceitful”. The officials, however, declined to offer any specific evidence of so-called backdoors in Huawei infrastructure that would permit it to spy on the U.S. or its allies.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 26, 2019 13:21 UTC