Business activities should not be politicized

To politicize the economy is like rendering to Caesar the things that are not Caesar's and to God the things that are not God's. That is what the United States is doing in its attempt to dissuade its European allies from their cooperation with China's telecommunications giant Huawei in their construction of 5G networks.

In the latest move, the US Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to block US telecommunications providers from using federal funds to buy Huawei equipment on the grounds Huawei and ZTE pose national security threats to the US. That the decision was made without any evidence that Huawei poses threat to US national security points to the nature of the vote, which was the politicizing of normal business activities.

In a statement on Saturday, Huawei urged the FCC to reconsider what it called a "profoundly mistaken" decision based on "selective information, innuendo, and mistaken assumptions".