{"id":30505,"date":"2023-05-02T06:33:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T06:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/eu-us-warn-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T06:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T06:47:55","slug":"eu-us-warn-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/eu-us-warn-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"EU, US warn Malaysia of security risk in Huawei&#8217;s bid for 5G role &#8211; FT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -The European Union and U.S. have warned Malaysia over risks to national security and foreign investment as it finalises a review of its 5G rollout that could allow China&#8217;s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to bid for a role in its telecoms infrastructure, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>EU and U.S. envoys to Malaysia wrote to the government in April after it decided to review a decision to award Ericsson a 11 billion ringgit ($2.5 billion) tender to build a state-owned 5G network, the report said citing letters seen by FT.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia&#8217;s 5G roll-out has seen repeated setbacks because of industry concerns over pricing and transparency, as well as worries that a single government-run network would result in a nationalised monopoly.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei had long been seen as the frontrunner for the contract, with the government having previously dismissed security concerns raised by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senior officials in Washington agree with my view that upending the existing model would undermine the competitiveness of new industries, stall 5G growth in Malaysia, and harm Malaysia\u2019s business-friendly image internationally,&#8221; U.S. ambassador to Malaysia Brian McFeeters wrote in one of the letters. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Allowing untrusted suppliers in any part of the network also subjects Malaysia\u2019s infrastructure to national security risks.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Huawei, the U.S. embassy in Kuala Lumpur, the EU delegation to Malaysia and the Malaysian Ministry of Communications and Digital\u00a0did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 4.4570 ringgit)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jyoti Narayan in Bengaluru; editing by Christian Schmollinger and Stephen Coates)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/eu-us-warn-malaysia\/file-photo-huawei-logo-is-pictured-on-its-headquarters-building-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4104J-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4104J-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -The European Union and U.S. have warned Malaysia over risks to national security and foreign investment as it finalises a review of its 5G rollout that could allow China&#8217;s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to bid for a role in its telecoms infrastructure, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. EU and U.S. envoys to Malaysia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1220],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-30505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-technology","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4104J-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30545,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30505\/revisions\/30545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}