German Chancellor Angela Merkel has approved a security bill that allows Huawei to keep operating in Germany—as long as it guarantees its equipment won’t be used for sabotage, espionage or terrorism.
The bill is heading to parliament. Rivada Networks CEO Declan Ganley says Huawei has strong ties to a number of mobile carriers in Germany.
“It certainly is more than a foot in the door for Huawei to continue the deployments that have been going on in Germany,” said Ganley.
Ganley says Deutsche Telekom continued to deploy equipment while the government was deciding how to handle Huawei.
“Deutsche Telekom knowing that no decision had been made, continued to deploy Huawei 5G equipment all over Germany, creating what we call the facts on the ground strategy,” said Ganley.
Ganley says funding from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) allows Huawei to squash local competition.
“So the CCP has been backing a model that is not sustainable, doesn’t make economic sense. But that does allow them to capture the 5G domain across Europe,” said Ganley.
Ganley says the German law would give Huawei access to the German market.
“What it does is it does not give any single entity in Germany or the German government that power to block Huawei. So to be able to block, to implement a ban, you would now need consensus,” said Ganley.
He says Huawei is a threat—not something we should still be speculating on.
“Right now you have Australia being publicly tortured in front of the world, with bans on wine, now on coal, being squeezed in every area of the Australian economy that China can touch,” said Ganley.
He says the reason China has launched a trade war on Australia is because they were the first to block Huawei’s 5G networks. To a lesser degree, he says it’s because they are calling for an independent investigation into the origins of the CCP virus.
