Judgment on Huawei should be based on facts, ministry says

Policymaking and judgment in any country should be "based on facts instead of groundless lies", Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said during a regular news conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

Lu made the remark after Vodafone CEO Nick Read warned on Monday that excluding Huawei from Europe's 5G networks could be "hugely disruptive" to national infrastructure and consumers.

"People are saying things at the moment that are not grounded," Read was quoted by Reuters as saying at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.