[Lio]

The argument, I believe, is that all equipment should be treated as suspect and carefully monitored. So you don't trust Huawei but you don't trust equipment from other suppliers either. Both will need constant validation.

Personally, I don't trust Huawei but that's mostly down to stories I've heard about industrial espionage against alternative suppliers.

For instance I never liked the way that BT replaced Marconi equipment with Huawei stuff in their 21CN network way back when. I think the government of the day was foolish to allow that to happen.

The bosses at BT at the time are long since retired on fat pensions and Marconi is now gone for good.