Germany right to separate 5G from politics

In a rebuff to the United States' call to strangle Huawei Technologies worldwide, Germany has finalized security rules for the construction of its next-generation 5G networks that will not exclude the Chinese telecommunications maker.

"We are not taking a pre-emptive decision to ban any actor, or any company," German government spokesman Steffen Seibert told a news conference in Berlin on Monday.

Such a decision was probably not easy to make, given the immense pressure the US has piled on its allies to ban Huawei's equipment on the false pretext it poses national security risks.