In outline:
- Version management issues, with different firmwares being used for each operator, with significant variations in each one [1].
- Failures to follow Huawei's own secure coding guidance, and sustained examples of poor coding (examples of which include tricks of the form of:
#define SAFE_LIBRARY_memcpy(dest, destMax, src, count)memcpy(dest, src, count)
to make code appear to no longer use unsafe functions, and make auditing harder. [2]- When critical vulnerabilities were found (arising from poor code quality in user-facing protocols, and an old operating system), they were fixed, but the fix introduced another major issue into the product in question. [1]
- Reliance on out-of-support RTOS in products, and no alignment of own product lifespans to external support lifespans, and no identification of this issue by themselves. [1]
- Previously, 70 full copies of 4 different OpenSSL versions were found in products (and 304 partial copies), some of which dated back to 2006 with multiple disclosed vulnerabilities in each, showing no dependency management at all, and no management of vulnerabilities in dependencies. [2]
[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Sure USA might do the same. But the USA is aligned closer culturally and values wise to the rest of the west
Just so your 5G system can't be turned off?
We know the US used the NSA to gain an economic edge in negotiations with the EU. It even shared the information commercially didn't it?
I don't think the US would hesitate to interfere for a moment if it wanted. The EU is already under US sanctions for building a gas pipeline with Russia. There is the Iran situation and the wider Middle East and North Africa messes and Turkey. Plenty of places for a disagreement to form...
The EU has no major beef with China (I would prefer if they did, there is a lot to oppose about the PRC). China also has a much more isolationist/localist foreign policy so they're less likely to act and less likely to come into conflict with the EU.
Edit:
Source on spying:
https://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/30/world/europe/eu-nsa/index...
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/business/us-snooping-on-c...
On sanctions:
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-protest-us-sanc...