EU Recommends Member States Exclude Huawei and ZTE From Telecom Infrastructure

The European Commission formally recommended that EU member states exclude Huawei and ZTE equipment from telecom connectivity infrastructure, with new cybersecurity rules that would allow the EU to ban high-risk suppliers from the market. China threatened countermeasures, calling the proposed rules 'discriminatory.' This represents the EU's most forceful step yet to remove Chinese telecom equipment from European networks, escalating tech decoupling between the EU and China.