The UK Just Dumped China's Huawei in 5G Tech Roll-Out - Citing its Lies Over Coronavirus. Western democracies, especially the United States, just heaved a huge sigh of relief after getting word that United Kingdom PM Boris Johnson is dropping the controversial Chinese tech company, Huawei, as the nation's provider of 5G infrastructure. Although Johnson was in support of the Chinese tech giant laying the non-sensitive portions of 5G infrastructure, he said China's lack of transparency about coronavirus made the communist-run country untrustworthy. President Trump, Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and members of the so-called  "Five-Eyes" countries that share intelligence information, brought huge pressure on the Brits to dump Huawei. The U.S. pressed hard for the UK to dump Huawei because of widespread speculation that China would use the 5G infrastructure to spy and use the remote command structure for blackmail. Senator Ted Cruz has said that if the UK used Huawei it would be next to impossible to share intelligence information with the ally. Earlier this week, Huawei, detecting a change of heart by the Brits due to anger over the coronavirus, sent a threatening letter to Johnson. Huawei's UK chief Victor Zhang told British leaders that pulling up stakes now would leave Britain in the "digital slow lane." The company is believed to be directly answerable to, if not an implicit part of, the Chinese government.  The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a China Initiative to keep the communist behemoth from exercising its 5G advantage. In a speech in February that is well worth watching and reading (see below), Attorney General William Barr said fighting for technological supremacy is about national security and Western everyday life. Here are just some of the stakes Barr, a former telecom company executive and Chinese studies graduate student, mentioned in his speech. The Tory Conservative party began a serious effort to claw back the contract from Huawei after seeing the communist nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic, its failure to report about the rampant virus, attempts to corner the market on protective hospital clothing, and realizing that key medications needed for survival were sourced and made in China. Bloomberg talked with Tory members who were fighting Johnson on Huawei: Besides unleashing the coronavirus on the world, the Chinese are responsible for the theft of U.S. military technology and of hacking into the database of the Office of Personnel Management – retrieving the 21 million real identities and personal details of American spies as well as workaday government employees — and broke into the database of Equifax.  The tech giant is banned from the United States. https://pjmedia.com/trending/huge-the-uk-just-dumped-chinas-huawei-in-5g-tech-roll-out-citing-its-lies-over-coronavirus/amp/?__twitter_impression=true