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The threat had been brewing for several years. Canada will ban Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE from rolling out its 5G network in the country after years of dithering, Justin Trudeau’s government announced Thursday. This long-awaited decision had been postponed by the Canadian government due to tensions between Ottawa and Beijing in recent years linked to the three-year diplomatic-judicial saga that followed the arrest of the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecom giant. Huawei, Meng Wanzhou. “We are announcing our intention to ban Huawei and ZTE products and services in Canada’s telecommunications systems,” Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said...
