EU Takes Tougher Stance on Huawei as China Tensions Rise

(Bloomberg) — The European Commission is dialing up pressure on member nations to stop using telecom equipment from the Chinese companies Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. in their most advanced mobile networks, explicitly labeling the companies for the first time as “high-risk” vendors.

As part of an effort to crack down on Chinese equipment in critical infrastructure, the European Union’s executive arm urged countries to phase out high-risk vendors from telecom networks in a new set of guidelines published Thursday. The Commission is also banning Huawei and ZTE from its communications systems.