US ambassador: stay far away from Huawei network

The Netherlands gets a Paard van Troje if it allows the Chinese to build 5G here.

The government is currently looking into whether the installation of ultra-fast mobile internet at Huawei is in good hands. The risk would be that the company passes on Dutch data to the intelligence services of the Chinese government. According to Hoekstra, this is not just a vague risk; after all, it is a legal obligation for Chinese companies to allow Peking's extensive intelligence device access to networks or equipment. 'Large-scale digital attacks are also possible due to so-called backdoors. '