Huawei chairman says Trump’s latest message on 5G ‘clear and correct’

BARCELONA: The chairman of Huawei Technologies said President Trump’s assertion that the U.S. needed to get ahead in mobile communications through competition rather than seeking to block technology was “clear and correct”.

Trump’s tweets on Thursday did not specifically mention the Chinese company, which is at the centre of a cyber security storm, but the comments could be viewed as toning down the U.S. administration’s opposition to the network equipment supplier.

“I have noticed the president’s Twitter, he said that the US needs faster and smarter 5G, or even 6G in the future, and he has realised that the US is lagging behind in this respect, and I think his message is clear and correct,” Guo Ping, speaking through an interpreter, said ahead of the mobile industry’s biggest global event in Barcelona.