Defying Trump, UK's Johnson refuses to ban Huawei from 5G
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson granted Huawei a limited role in Britain's 5G mobile network on Tuesday, frustrating a global attempt by the United States to exclude the Chinese telecoms giant from the West's next generation communications. Defying Britain's closest ally in favour of China on the eve of Brexit, Johnson ruled that "high-risk vendors" such as Huawei [HWT.UL] would be allowed into the non-sensitive parts of the 5G network.Yet such high-risk companies' involvement..