Senin, 13 April 2020

Huawei Urges U.K. to Avoid Reversing Position on 5G as a Result of Coronavirus - Newsweek

Chinese multinational telecommunications giant Huawei has published an open letter urging the United Kingdom to not reverse its position on allowing the company to build part of its 5G network.

In January, the British government approved Huawei to move forward with constructing a limited portion of its 5G infrastructure, despite pushback from the U.S. and some of the kingdom's conservative lawmakers. Under the approval agreement, the Chinese company will be allowed to build up to 35 percent of the U.K.'s network while being banned from "sensitive" portions of the new infrastructure.

But a group of conservative lawmakers have pushed back against this approval. Those critics attempted to overturn the government's decision in March, claiming that the company is an arm of China's government. Huawei has consistently pushed back against such accusations, which have also been lobbed by the U.S. The U.S. has blacklisted the company and has severely limited its ability to purchase American-made components.

"At Huawei we are focused on keeping Britain connected—the biggest contribution we can make to the U.K.'s national effort against coronavirus," Victor Zhang, vice president of Huawei, wrote in the open letter shared to the company's website on Monday.

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A photograph shows the logo of Chinese company Huawei at its main U.K. offices in Reading, west of London, on January 28. In January, the British government approved Huawei to move forward with constructing a limited portion of its 5G infrastructure, despite pushback from the U.S. and some of the kingdom's conservative lawmakers. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty

"We have built trust in our U.K. business over 20 years by helping our customers—the mobile network operators—provide consumers with affordable, reliable calls and data," Zhang added. "Despite this, there has been groundless criticism from some about Huawei's involvement in the U.K.'s 5G rollout. And there are those who choose to continue to attack us without presenting any evidence. Disrupting our involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice."

"Right now, by keeping Britain online, we are able to play our part in helping the country through this difficult period," he wrote.

China critics in the U.S. and the U.K. are concerned about Huawei and its close connection to the Chinese government. They also have criticized China's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, attempting to cast blame on the East Asian nation for the growing outbreaks in their countries.

"Over time, we have allowed ourselves to grow dependent on China and have failed to take a strategic view of Britain's long-term economic, technical and security needs," a group of 15 conservative British members of Parliament wrote in an April 4 letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the BBC reported.

Huawei is also lobbying Canada to allow it to help build the North American nation's 5G infrastructure. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the company has sent Canada tens of thousand of medical masks and goggles, including N95 respirator masks.

U.S. lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, have voiced concern about this soft power influence from China.

"This administration's retreat from multilateralism has been a boon for Chinese soft power," Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia told Newsweek last week. "This latest display by Huawei, almost certainly done in coordination with the Chinese government, is no exception."

But Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said the medical supplies, while appreciated, are not going to influence the government's position toward the Chinese company.

"Receiving goods from a particular company won't necessarily imply at all that we regard different situations with that company any differently in the future," Trudeau said last week.

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2020-04-13 18:21:01Z
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Chinese telecoms company Huawei has said that disrupting its involvement in the rollout of 5G would do Britain "a disservice".

In January, the UK government approved a limited role for Huawei in building the country's new data networks.

But in March, a backbench rebellion within the Conservative party signalled efforts to overturn the move.

In an open letter, the firm also said it was focused on keeping the UK connected during the Covid-19 crisis.

But the pandemic may increase pressure on the government to take a tougher line on the company.

'Slow lane'

In the letter, Huawei's UK chief Victor Zhang says home data use has increased by at least 50% since the virus first hit the UK, placing "significant pressure" on telecoms systems.

Huawei says it has been working with partners like BT, Vodafone and EE to deal with the growth and has also set up three new warehouses around the country to ensure spare parts stay in supply.

Mr Zhang also says the current crisis has highlighted how many people, especially in rural communities, are "stuck in a digital slow lane". And he warns that excluding Huawei from a future role in 5G would be a mistake.

"There are those who choose to continue to attack us without presenting any evidence," he writes.

"Disrupting our involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice."

The government has banned Huawei from the most sensitive parts of the UK's mobile networks, and limited it to 35% of the periphery, which includes its radio masts.

But critics argue it is a security risk to allow the Chinese company to play any role at all because of fears it could be used by Beijing to spy on or even sabotage communications.

In early March, 38 Conservatives MPs rebelled on the issue, a larger number than expected. That points to a potential upset when the Telecoms Infrastructure Bill comes before Parliament, which is planned to happen later in the year.

The coronavirus crisis highlights the tension between economic and national security issues that makes the topic so contentious.

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On one side is the need for greater connectivity to boost economic growth. Supporters of Huawei's role argue that excluding it would both slow down and raise the cost of delivering faster and more reliable networks.

On the other side is anger directed at China from some quarters because of its perceived mishandling of the initial Covid-19 outbreak, as well as the wider concerns over growing dependence on its technologies and companies.

Unnamed ministers and senior officials were recently quoted as saying there would have to be a "reckoning" once the current crisis is over.

Part of that could involve a reversal of January's decision - a concern which may explain the decision to write the letter.

On 4 April a group of 15 Conservative MPs called for a rethink on relations with China in their own letter to the Prime Minister, written a day before he was admitted to hospital.

"Over time, we have allowed ourselves to grow dependent on China and have failed to take a strategic view of Britain's long-term economic, technical and security needs," the group wrote. Among the signatories were Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis and Bob Seely.

It is understood that Huawei waited until the Prime Minister was out of hospital before releasing its letter.

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Chinese telecoms company Huawei has said that disrupting its involvement in the rollout of 5G would do Britain "a disservice".

In January, the UK government approved a limited role for Huawei in building the country's new data networks.

But in March, a backbench rebellion within the Conservative party signalled efforts to overturn the move.

In an open letter, the firm also said it was focused on keeping the UK connected during the Covid-19 crisis.

But the pandemic may increase pressure on the government to take a tougher line on the company.

'Slow lane'

In the letter, Huawei's UK chief Victor Zhang says home data use has increased by at least 50% since the virus first hit the UK, placing "significant pressure" on telecoms systems.

Huawei says it has been working with partners like BT, Vodafone and EE to deal with the growth and has also set up three new warehouses around the country to ensure spare parts stay in supply.

Mr Zhang also says the current crisis has highlighted how many people, especially in rural communities, are "stuck in a digital slow lane". And he warns that excluding Huawei from a future role in 5G would be a mistake.

"There are those who choose to continue to attack us without presenting any evidence," he writes.

"Disrupting our involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice."

The government has banned Huawei from the most sensitive parts of the UK's mobile networks, and limited it to 35% of the periphery, which includes its radio masts.

But critics argue it is a security risk to allow the Chinese company to play any role at all because of fears it could be used by Beijing to spy on or even sabotage communications.

In early March, 38 Conservatives MPs rebelled on the issue, a larger number than expected. That points to a potential upset when the Telecoms Infrastructure Bill comes before Parliament, which is planned to happen later in the year.

The coronavirus crisis highlights the tension between economic and national security issues that makes the topic so contentious.

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On one side is the need for greater connectivity to boost economic growth. Supporters of Huawei's role argue that excluding it would both slow down and raise the cost of delivering faster and more reliable networks.

On the other side is anger directed at China from some quarters because of its perceived mishandling of the initial Covid-19 outbreak, as well as the wider concerns over growing dependence on its technologies and companies.

Unnamed ministers and senior officials were recently quoted as saying there would have to be a "reckoning" once the current crisis is over.

Part of that could involve a reversal of January's decision - a concern which may explain the decision to write the letter.

On 4 April a group of 15 Conservative MPs called for a rethink on relations with China in their own letter to the Prime Minister, written a day before he was admitted to hospital.

"Over time, we have allowed ourselves to grow dependent on China and have failed to take a strategic view of Britain's long-term economic, technical and security needs," the group wrote. Among the signatories were Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis and Bob Seely.

It is understood that Huawei waited until the Prime Minister was out of hospital before releasing its letter.

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Where Germany had success in fighting coronavirus, Britain stumbled - The Washington Post

Public health experts fear that Britain’s mortality rate may soon be or already is the highest in all of Europe, as pandemic-ravaged Italy and Spain slowly get to grips with the disease. Britain’s steady shift toward becoming the new European epicenter of the outbreak stands in stark contrast with nearby Germany, the only country on the continent with a bigger economy and whose government reported its first case around the same time as Johnson’s government.

In the second week of March, Johnson’s government justified its largely lax strategy — schools, restaurants and other major venues remained open, while only the elderly who were already infirm were advised to stay home — on the grounds that it was pursuing “herd immunity,” counting on Britain’s invulnerable groups to contract the disease and become immune. Just days later, the government backtracked, its supposed pragmatism crashing against new worrying projections of hundreds of thousands of deaths should it not impose lockdowns and strict measures of social distancing.

Meanwhile, on March 11, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that 60 to 70 percent of her country could contract the virus. But that wasn’t a statement of resignation — Merkel said the challenge now was all about winning time, and her country’s federal, state and local authorities had already set about attempting to achieve that.

“Nearly three months since their first positive cases, Germany has conducted more than 1.3 million tests and contact tracing remains central to its strategy,” noted BuzzFeed in a piece that presented a thorough timeline comparing both countries’ handling of the crisis. “The UK has carried out fewer than 335,000 tests and all but dropped attempts to aggressively trace contacts. About 3,000 people have died so far in Germany. More than 10,000 have died in the UK.”

Emily Haber, the German ambassador to the United States, waved away any notion of German exceptionalism amid the pandemic. “We can’t state there is a specific German template,” she said during an online briefing call last week with reporters organized by the Meridian International Center in Washington.

Haber pointed to a number of key factors that gave Germany an advantage in its preparations: the widespread mass testing program; a relatively young population that made up the initial bulk of covid-19 cases, and mostly survived; and the benefit of time to expand intensive care facilities and build up stockpiles of medical equipment.

“We were able to prepare because we were not the first country in Europe affected, and we saw and could analyze developments elsewhere,” Haber said, adding that the “well-oiled machinery” of the country’s universal health-care system and effective coordination between the federal government and local and state agencies helped. Germany’s hospitals still have a surfeit of available beds for coronavirus-positive patients and may not face the same pressures that buckled health-care systems in other European countries.

Compared with Britain, Germany gave itself a real head start in testing. “The people [they were in contact with] were also traced and tested repeatedly and they were isolated as well,” Evangelos Kotsopoulos, spokesman for the German Association of Accredited Laboratories, told the BBC, adding that it helped “flatten the curve a bit and slowed down the rate of infection.”

“Rather than following countries like South Korea in taking immediate draconian action to stop the disease — including the use of mass testing — Johnson’s team thought a more modulated approach would ultimately save more lives and cause less economic harm,” the Financial Times detailed in a piece on the government’s early missteps.

Now, Britain finds itself playing catch-up while lacking key German advantages: a sophisticated and sizable biotech industry that helped fast-track widespread testing, and a decentralized political structure that — unlike, say, its equivalent in the United States — effectively enabled private laboratories and local and state-level agencies to take the lead on implementing testing. “While Germany broadened its testing strategy to cover all those with mild symptoms — the core of a strategy to test, trace and isolate people infected with the virus — by March, Britain was struggling to scale up,” the FT noted.

“We have the best scientific labs in the world but we did not have the scale,” British Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC. “My German counterpart, for instance, could call upon 100 testing labs ready and waiting when the crisis struck, thanks in large part to Roche, one of the biggest diagnostic companies in the world.”

As Johnson continues his recovery, he faces an altogether different national challenge in 2020 than the one he had set out to achieve: Brexit. “The pandemic may yet prove to be this calamity. Perhaps history or the electorate will judge him for not taking it seriously enough, for acting too slowly or too reluctantly,” the Atlantic’s Tom McTague wrote in an essay that touched on the “sense of destiny” that seemed to tail the prime minister’s political career.

McTague added: Johnson’s “sudden deterioration came just as things in the country at large were getting worse. Johnson had not been laid low saving the day like Horatio Nelson, leading Britain through its modern-day Battle of Trafalgar. Instead, he appeared to be living the crisis itself.”

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Britain at its best in a crisis, says Prince William - Page Six

LONDON – Prince William has said Britain is at its best in a crisis, his office said on Sunday, the latest in a series of messages from the royal family seeking to galvanise the nation during the coronavirus pandemic.

Queen Elizabeth has twice addressed Britons in the past week, while heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, who tested positive for the new virus, has also issued several video and audio messages since he recovered.

William’s message came on a day when the COVID-19 death toll in hospitals across the United Kingdom passed 10,000.

“I think Britain is at its best when faced with a crisis,” the queen’s grandson said during a call with a community charity in northern England that runs a food bank and has been delivering hot meals to isolated people.

“We all pull together and that community spirit comes rushing back quicker than anything else,” William said on the call, according to his office at Kensington Palace.

William, who is second-in-line to the throne after his father Charles, has become the patron of the National Emergencies Trust (NET) for 2020, the palace said.

Created in 2019, the NET seeks to coordinate with not-for-profit organizations to direct public donations to specific appeals and to distribute funds fairly and efficiently.

The NET’s Coronavirus Appeal in March, launched by William in March, has raised millions of pounds.

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UK cancels order for simple ventilators, needs more complex ones: source - Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has cancelled an order for thousands of units of a simple model of ventilator developed by industrial companies to treat COVID-19 because more sophisticated devices are now needed, a source involved in the project said on Sunday.

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The government confirmed it no longer required that particular model, known as BlueSky.

“We are no longer supporting the production of the BlueSky device following a reassessment of the product’s viability in light of the ever developing picture around what is needed to most effectively treat COVID-19,” said a spokesman for the Cabinet Office, which is coordinating ventilator orders.

“We are continuing to work at unprecedented speed with a number of other manufacturers to scale up UK production of ventilators,” the spokesman said.

The government has appealed to industry to come forward with new models of ventilator that could be produced on a large scale at short notice to help the National Health Service deal with a surge in patients infected with the new coronavirus.

More than 30,000 ventilators in total have been ordered from various consortia of firms from sectors including aerospace, engineering and Formula One.

The source, who did not wish to be named because they were not authorised to disclose sensitive details to the media, said the group involved in the BlueSky project had been preparing to deliver thousands of units.

The source said the reason given by the government to the BlueSky team for cancelling the order was that while the overall number of new UK coronavirus infections was slowing, cases seen in hospitals were more complex than expected.

With several projects competing for the same components, which are in limited supply, the government decided to prioritise more sophisticated devices and cancel the BlueSky order with immediate effect, the source said.

The government is going ahead with the production and delivery of other devices as part of its initiative with industry. The first paraPac devices from Smiths Group were delivered to hospitals on Sunday.

Other devices are currently going through testing, including newly designed products. The government has said it will confirm orders once the new devices pass approvals and have confirmed delivery schedules.

Reporting by London Bureau; Writing by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Giles Elgood

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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Released From Hospital - The Wall Street Journal

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson recorded a message for the public on Sunday after leaving St. Thomas’s hospital in London after treatment for Covid-19. Photo: Pippa Fowles/10 Downing Street

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has left the hospital and is continuing to recover from coronavirus, as recorded deaths from the illness across Britain and Northern Ireland passed the 10,000 mark.

Mr. Johnson, 55, will spend some time at Chequers, the country residence of British prime ministers, as his government begins to assess when and how to ease the lockdown restrictions introduced to limit the spread of the infection, or whether to extend them.

“On the advice of his medical team, the P.M. will not be immediately returning to work,” a spokesman said.

In a video message released after his discharge, Mr. Johnson thanked the staff of Britain’s National Health Service, or NHS, for saving his life after he was admitted to St. Thomas’ Hospital in London on April 5, mentioning doctors and nurses by name. He urged people to continue practicing social distancing and stay home whenever possible to ease the burden on the country’s health-care system.

“Because although we mourn every day those who are taken from us in such numbers and though the struggle is by no means over, we are now making progress in this incredible national battle against coronavirus—a fight we never picked against an enemy we still don’t entirely understand,” Mr. Johnson said. “We are making progress in this national battle because the British people formed a human shield around this country’s greatest national asset, our National Health Service.”

He initially had tried to shake off the symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, while isolating himself in his apartment at No. 10 Downing Street, but his condition quickly deteriorated. News he had been taken into intensive care and administered oxygen to help ease his breathing fanned worries about the dangers posed by the virus.

Carrie Symonds, Mr. Johnson’s fiancée, with whom he is expecting a child, said she owed a debt of gratitude to the staff of the NHS that she would never be able to repay.

Mr. Johnson moved to Chequers, the country residence of Britain's prime minister.

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“There were times last week that were very dark indeed,” she said on her verified account on Twitter. “My heart goes out to all those in similar situations, worried sick about our loved ones.”

The severity of Mr. Johnson’s illness raised the prospect of a power vacuum as Britain approached the worst of the unprecedented public-health crisis.

In addition to testing the resilience of Britain’s state health-care service, the pandemic also prompted the government to instruct millions of citizens to stay at home, badly disrupting the economy and presenting the challenge of how to restart it once the spread of the virus is considered to be under control.

The U.K. Treasury said Thursday it plans to dip into an overdraft facility at the Bank of England to help finance spending, a sign the government’s need for cash is rising as it pumps money to stricken businesses and households.

British officials Sunday said the death toll from Covid-19 had passed 10,000 to reach 10,612 after 737 additional people were reported to have died. The figures don’t include deaths outside of hospitals, out in the community or in facilities such as care homes. Matt Hancock, Britain’s health secretary, told a news briefing there are signs that the numbers of fresh infections and hospitalizations were beginning to flatten, but people should continue practicing social distancing to prevent further infections.

Police officers outside of St Thomas' Hospital after Mr. Johnson was moved to intensive care on April 6.

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“The future of this virus is unknown,” Mr. Hancock said.

The lockdown, in which people are encouraged to stay home except for essential tasks or brief exercise, will remain in place at least until the end of this week, when officials are scheduled to discuss the matter, and likely for longer to slow the spread of the virus, officials have said.

Britain’s informal code of government doesn’t designate a vice prime minister who automatically takes charge when the leader is incapacitated. On falling ill, Mr. Johnson handed those duties to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is expected to continue the role until the prime minister has recovered further.

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The British government has been criticized by opposition parties and some medical experts for an unorthodox strategy to address the coronavirus. They say it waited too long to impose stringent social-distancing measures.

Mr. Johnson’s government has also been criticized for not mass testing people to identify potential carriers and those who have contracted the virus but have recovered and are now immune.

Write to James Hookway at james.hookway@wsj.com

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