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Chinese tech firm fights GCHQ warning


A Chinese state-backed technology giant is recruiting MPs and peers for a campaign to overturn GCHQ advice that its equipment may be a threat to national security.

ZTE, which makes network gear and is owned by the Chinese state, is ­battling advice issued in April by GCHQ’s National Cyber ­Security Centre (NCSC) that use of its “equipment or services within ­existing ­telecommunications infra- structure would present a risk to UK national ­security that could not be mitigated effectively or practicably”.

The warning echoed bans on ZTE equipment in the United States and Australia, and was issued as telecoms operators prepare to invest billions of pounds in new 5G mobile and full-fibre broadband…





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