What to make of Sweden's exclusion of Huawei and ZTE from its 5G infrastructure?

What to make of Sweden's exclusion of Huawei and ZTE from its 5G infrastructure?

    In October 2020, the Swedish postal and telecommunications agency has published its decision to exclude two Chinese vendors from the rollout of the future mobile network infrastructure, better known as 5G: Huawei and ZTE. The decision is being challenged in court at the moment. Sweden's announcement follows after a long debate across the West. Often seen as being part of the US-China tech rivalry, Europe has discussed how to position itself. In an attempt to coordinate a European approach, the EU published a "toolbox" in early 2020. With the exception of the United Kingdom (non-EU member) no other European state has taken such an explicit decision against the Chinese technology firms.

    Since late 2018, I closely follow the debate from technological, economic, political and security angles. Please find below my press commentary on the Swedish decision as well as two related publications.

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