Pressure mounts on government to ban Huawei

The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday came under considerable pressure to act against Chinese telecom equipment major Huawei, which has been allowed to participate in the 5G trials, after the US Federal Communications Commission designated it and ZTE, another telco from China, as “national security threats”.

India had decided to allow Huawei to participate in the 5G trials along with other network equipment makers in December-end despite the US repeatedly prodding New Delhi and other world capitals to keep the Chinese company out as part of its running competition with China on multiple fronts.

After China stepped up aggression along the Line of Actual Control this summer, there has been a growing clamour to eject Huawei from India, but till date there has been no official word from the government.