Former MI6 spymaster says Huawei is a risk for UK and 5G

London — China’s Huawei poses such a grave security risk to the UK that the government must not allow it to have even a limited role in building 5G networks, a former head of Britain’s MI6 foreign spy service said on Thursday.

“I very much hope there is time for the UK government, and the probability, as I write, of a new prime minister, to reconsider the Huawei decision,” said Richard Dearlove, who was chief of the secret intelligence service from 1996 to 2004. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo told Britain on a visit this month that it needs to change its attitude towards China and Huawei, casting the world’s second largest economy as a threat to the West similar to that once posed by the Soviet Union.

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