WASHINGTON - America's global campaign to prevent its closest allies from using Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant, in the next generation of wireless networks has largely failed, with foreign leaders publicly rebuffing the US argument that the firm poses an unmanageable security threat.
In public speeches and private conversations, Mr Pompeo and Mr Esper continued to hammer home the dangers of letting a Chinese firm into networks that control critical communications, saying it would give the Chinese government the ability to spy on - or, in times of conflict, turn off - those networks. The security risks are so severe, they warned, that the US would no longer be able to share intelligence with any country whose network uses Huawei.
That includes the next-generation telecommunications networks that Huawei is building, known as 5G. Those superfast networks will control communications, critical infrastructure and, most worrying for US officials, the"Internet of Things" devices that are already controlling factories, autonomous vehicles and the day-to-day operations of military bases.
That has sent the administration scrambling to present European and other nations with another option. Over the span of 10 days, Attorney-General William Barr, vice-president Mike Pence and other officials have offered differing US strategies to build a credible competitor to Huawei. Yet at times, they have contradicted one another's ideas, often in public.
Huawei has proved increasingly effective at pushing back against the US. After US officials said last week that they had long ago found a"back door" that would allow the company to siphon information off any network, without American telecommunications firms knowing it, the company called it"impossible" and demanded evidence. But none has been declassified.
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