The U.K. Is On a Collision Course With China
- Johnson government in talks with Huawei rivals on 5G network
- Brexit means that the U.K. is cut loose from Europe on China
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The U.K. is heading for a damaging showdown with China as it takes on Beijing over Hong Kong and Huawei Technologies Co.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has criticized Beijing’s planned imposition of a security law on the former British territory of Hong Kong, and is taking steps to exclude Huawei from its fifth-generation mobile networks by lining up potential replacements.