London Europe's telecoms companies want to do business with China's Huawei. That may have just gotten harder.
Vodafone and Huawei confirmed Tuesday that the phone company discovered vulnerabilities in Huawei software in 2011 and 2012, following a report from Bloomberg News. The problems were routine and promptly fixed, the companies said. But the disclosure could give the United States more ammunition in its campaign to block Huawei from next-generation 5G networks in Europe because of fears that China could use the technology for spying or sabotage.
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Jiang Jinheng, son of Jiang Zemin, former chairman of the Communist Party of China, is a hybrid.