Pompeo puts US paranoia front and center in Europe

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on a five-nation trip to Europe, of which the highlight is supposed to be the conference on the future of the Middle East, with a heavy emphasis on containing Iran.

But that seems to have in no way diminished Washington's obsession with Huawei, and of course China.

On the very first leg of the trip, in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, the top US diplomat once again issued an unsubstantiated allegation that the Chinese telecommunications company was a security risk, warning its NATO ally that its embrace of Huawei technologies presented "actual risks" to the Hungarian people and that it risked China using the technology "in a way that is not in the best interest of Hungary". Blahdiblah, you probably know how it goes by now.