US Sanctions on Huawei Factor Into UK Restrictions Against China
U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said his country wasn't “strong-armed” by the U.S. into recent actions against Beijing, saying the U.K. shares many of the same policy goals as the U.S. Instead, Raab said recent U.S. restrictions against Huawei and…
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Chinese officials factored into U.K. policymaking. His country recently announced it's banning Huawei from its 5G network (see 2007140023). “The reality is as a result of U.S. sanctions, we’ve, of course, got to look with a clear-sighted perspective at what that means,” Raab told a news conference Tuesday in London with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The U.K.’s measures are “reflective" of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson believed was in "the best interests of the” British people, said Pompeo. He said he thinks Britain "made a good decision," not because the U.S. said it was a good decision but because U.K. leadership concluded it was "the right thing to do.”