Society: The two major considerations of the British conditions to release Huawei

Source: Taiwan Economic Daily

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When the United States tried her best to block China's 5G technology infiltration, why is Britain, which is known as the State of Brothers, is the first to announce that it can open the 5G network equipment produced by Huawei?From the objective conditions and political situation of the British economy in recent years, it is not difficult to find the answer.

First of all, among the main 5G suppliers in the current market, Huawei has a price advantage earlier earlier with research and development.The British telecommunications service provider, British Telecom (BT), pointed out that if the company mainly uses 5G telecommunications equipment provided by companies such as Nokia or Elin, only part of Huawei equipment will be used in the next five years.Cost; Vodafone, the largest telecommunications dealer in Europe, also said that the additional cost of Huawei equipment is about 200 million euros.Therefore, there is no reason to abandon Huawei to choose the services provided by the US or other countries in the telecommunications operator of Shang Yan.Johnson decided to let Huawei's non -core construction in the UK.

Of course, the British government also has the doubts of Huawei may listen to the Chinese military. Therefore, in the proposal released by the National Digital Security Center, a new term -High Risk Vendors (HRV) is proposed, andHuawei is listed in it.As the name suggests, HRV is a high -risk equipment and system supplier to bring high -risk equipment to the British communication network. The proposal is extremely strict with HRV. If you must not participate in the construction of all 4G, 5G core networks and related support systems.In other words, Huawei is strictly limited to peripheral equipment such as wireless network base platforms and antennas such as relatively strong substitution, and the number of equipment and traffic shall not exceed 35%.

Secondly, in terms of the political situation in the UK in recent years, after several years of tossing of Brexit referendum and negotiations, the joint kingdom's political and economic injuries have been greatly injured.After Brexit, it will not only lose the support of the European Union, but also face the flow of people, gold flow and logistics.The current European Economic and Trade Agreement is still negotiating and the content of the negotiations is highly uncertain. It is unlikely that the British government will take all the opportunities for future economic development.Therefore, looking for other international partners is the key to Britain's future life, and it can also be used as a bargaining chip for British and European economic and trade negotiations.This is justified with China, which is actively looking for opportunities for economic and trade cooperation.

Even at this time, it is too early to talk about Sino -British economic and trade cooperation, but the two parties have neither conflict in geographical interests, and both sides in the ends of Eurasia and East East have cooperative causes. It is undoubtedly a trial to open the use of Huawei equipment limited.For China, after the U.S. -China trade war, China urgently needs to open the Western market, the British government opens the Huawei 5G equipment not only helps dispel doubts (such as Germany) in other European countries, and it is also easy to produce a leading role, such asThe European Commission has also ruled that there are conditions for open member states to use Huawei 5G equipment; for Britain, the gold flow and logistics and even abortion from China can fill the vacancies left after the EU.It is also absolutely capable of absorbing financial goods and labor output from Britain.As for why the U.S. priority cooperation is not given priority, it is related to President Trump's pursuit of bilateralism and holding high in the United States priority, making it unlikely that Britain who lacks bargaining chips is unlikely to obtain any additional economic benefits from its hands.

However, for Huawei, this time Britain is only open and strict, that is, Huawei still cannot participate in the core network construction of the British 5G, but Huawei has not expressed any regrets, and even continuously releases goodwills., Also publicly stated that in order to integrate more closely into the European market, it was decided to establish a production base in Europe to realize the ideal of 5G equipment products in the European market in Europe.13,000 job opportunities, I hope to further eliminate the external doubts about the safety of Huawei's products.

At present, the Britain of the Five Eyes Alliance has the conditions to release Huawei, which not only takes into account information security, economic benefits, and national strategies, but also opens the door for more close economic and trade cooperation in Britain and China in the future.Even though US President Trump was furious about this, there was a rumor that he scolded British Prime Minister Johnson on the phone, but if he evaluated from Britain's national interests, the decision to release Huawei's decision was not too surprising.