Increasing pressure on the German government to ban Chinese technology companies

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting the publication “D Site Germany”, so Since the Russian wiretapping scandal of senior German military officials, pressure is mounting on the government to quickly remove technology from China from the mobile phone network. The greens in the coalition government demand that the German chancellor should finally act.

After this scandal, prominent politicians in the German government coalition known as Traffic Light, as well as the opposition, demanded decisive action against Huawei technology in the latest standard. Mobile communications have become the fifth generation of the Internet.

Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary Deputy at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, said: “With the increase in cyber attacks, we see how critical a secure digital infrastructure is.” The German official warned: “It is therefore important for the federal government to decide how to deal with providers like Huawei and protect our 5G internet network against authoritarian decisions.

For spokesman Sebastian Hartmann The internal policy of the Bundestag faction also needs a systematic strategy to replace the critical components of Huawei from Germany in order to reduce the possible structural dependencies of the fifth generation Internet network.

Greens in the Bundestag also want the government to hurry in this direction. Constantin von Notz, the deputy of the Green faction in the German Parliament, said: “Given the sharp increase in threats, we should not waste any more time.” The domestic politician, who is also chairman of the Parliamentary Scrutiny Committee on Secret Services, said: “The warnings from our security officials are unanimous and could rarely be clearer.” We expect the chancellor to make a decision as soon as possible based on the agreements made in the previous months.

Andrea Lindholz, vice president of the United Christian Party Union fraction, also emphasized: “The prime minister must act.” Companies should also know that in cases of doubt, security interests should take precedence over economic interests.

The department of Nancy Pfizer, Germany’s Federal Minister of the Interior, had already decided in September to ban China’s Huawei and ZTE. fundamentally prohibit from participating in Internet projects. Accordingly, the three major mobile phone providers in Germany must rid their main networks of the components of these major Chinese companies by the end of 2025. By 2026, major cities – especially the capital Berlin – must be free of Chinese components in the access network. According to the newspaper Zoddeutsche Zeitung, the digital department of this ministry has so far opposed this plan.

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