Donald Trump Just Got Snubbed by UK, Germany in Plan to Block Huawei from Global 5G Domination

Bad news for Donald Trump as Britain and Germany won’t be joining the United States in its crusade to crush Huawei’s operations, but they do need guarantees from the Chinese firm. It seems both countries are not interested in getting caught in the dispute between the U.S. and China. Washington and Beijing are fighting for something much more than just economic supremacy.

The tensions have boiled over into a trade war that has continued to rage on till this day, with things set to get worse if the March 2 deadline for negotiations elapses and no resolution is reached by the two parties.

Huawei: Caught in the Middle

Huawei is a behemoth. It overtook Apple as the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world in 2018 and dropped Ericsson in its tracks in 2012 as the world’s largest telecommunications-equipment manufacturer.

The China-based company is a major stakeholder in the global telecommunications industry, and axiomatically, is a perceived threat to any technological endeavor embarked on by the United States. So, it could only have been music to Trump’s ears when the company’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou (who, coincidentally, is the daughter of the company’s CEO Ren Zhengfei) was arrested in December 2018, on charges reportedly related to a violation of sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on Iran.

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