Envoy warns against blocking hi-tech

The Chinese ambassador to the European Union warned on Tuesday against an "iron curtain" mentality in the age of 5G technology.

Zhang Ming, head of the Mission of China to the EU, said,"5G technology is a product of global innovation and cooperation, and its industrial, supply and value chains are so widely spread and interlinked that almost everyone has a stake in it.

"Drawing an iron curtain would therefore have an impact on all, Chinese, Europeans, Americans, and others alike," Zhang wrote in an article published on Tuesday in Euractiv.