Boris Johnson was on Tuesday sucked into the cold war raging between Washington and Beijing, his decision to ban Huawei from Britain’s 5G mobile phone networks — but not yet — a sign of the geopolitical agonies facing the UK prime minister.
Mr Johnson is a self-described “Sinophile” attracted to the commercial opportunities of trade with the Asian superpower, which already has big UK investments in sectors including telecoms, transport and nuclear energy.
Having distanced the UK from its European partners through Brexit, Mr Johnson recognises that his promise to lead a buccaneering, free-trading “Global Britain” is undermined if there is a China-sized hole in the policy.
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