A recent article in The Times quotes Ciaran Martin, former head of the UK National Cyber Security Center, and other intelligence officials, to confirm gross interference by the United States in the United Kingdom’s established plan for cooperation with Chinese high-tech company Huawei.
After the UK government concluded in 2019 that Huawei did not pose any national security threat and was willing to cooperate with it, the US reportedly sent a delegation led by Matthew Pottinger, deputy national security advisor to the then US president, who shouted them down during a five-hour Cabinet meeting in London, forcing the UK to ditch the Chinese company without any technical argument to negate the British assessment.
The details in the British daily read like a plot straight out of a movie. It once again shows that the…
