Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

I would encourage people to read the NCSC blog post on this as it goes into technical detail on why the decision was made.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/a-different-future-for-tel...

So at least park of the justification here is that we have to comply with Americas foreign policy?

Sometimes USA still manages to do the right thing it seems.

"You can rely on the USA to do the right thing; once it had exhausted all the other options"

- Churchill (I think)

Very true in this case, if it was not for US foreign policy choices China would not be the problem it is today.

Effectively US is pulling US-made chip design tools from under huawei’s manufacturing process. Seems that the political calculus is that this will damage huawei’s standing, at the expense of global technological cooperation. But to what end? It falls short of providing Huawei (and the state behind it) with incentives to be more transparent with their technology, and at best creates a necessity for them to become wholly independent in their process. I guess the US is betting they can’t pull this off, but if they do, this policy has bought US nothing but a few years of suppression and a fiercer competition.

>It falls short of providing Huawei (and the state behind it) with incentives to be more transparent with their technology, and at best creates a necessity for them to become wholly independent in their process. I guess the US is betting they can’t pull this off...

Bingo. It seems like this is more a bet that they can't become wholly independent without the tooling itself, or can't become independent for a long while. I doubt it has much to do with "setting up incentives for transparency". I think the "will China become transparent about its actions" question is pretty much settled at this point.