Overview
- The European Commission recommended that EU countries bar Huawei and ZTE gear from telecom infrastructure on security grounds.
- Draft EU cybersecurity rules would allow bloc‑wide bans on equipment from suppliers labeled high risk.
- The guidance reaches telecom operators, which are urged not to buy or install hardware from the two Chinese vendors.
- China called the plan discriminatory and a breach of WTO rules and warned of countermeasures without saying what they would be.
- The push aligns with the EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act, which seeks to boost European suppliers that compete under stricter rules and higher energy costs than rivals in the U.S. and China.