Sunil Mittal and Jaishankar weigh in on Huawei debate

Two big twists were added over two days to the already complicated 5G-Huawei issue. On Thursday, Bharti Enterprises chairman and telecom heavyweight Sunil Mittal rebutted US secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross and argued that India should consider deploying Huawei’s 5G network. A day earlier foreign minister S Jaishankar had said 5G was a telecom issue and not a political one and that in terms of negotiations with China, India would “largely take a bilateral approach”.

Mittal and Ross were speaking at the World Economic Forum in New Delhi. Jaishankar was speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.