British Military Drone Boats Had Unknown Components Communicating With China: Report

The consequences of such decisions are clear: the Huawei debacle of 2020 saw the then-British government of Boris Johnson having to back out of a contract with Chinese tech firm Huawei to build a part of the nations incoming 5G telecoms network. The government had been keen to stay with the Chinese state-controlled business as the best value-for-money bid for the project, even in the face of security warnings about allowing China to take hold of the UKs internet backbone, pushing ahead even in the face of a rebellion by its own lawmakers.