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There are rumours that the intelligence community are furious about the government permitting Chinese involvement at Hinkley C...

As I understand it, the Government white paper on National Security and Foreign Investment was published directly on the back of those concerns. I've got colleagues that work on local bus policy that have been called into meetings to discuss how they are going to help prevent malign states from interfering with critical national infrastructure projects, so this all seems extra odd to have got this far.

The basic issue seems to be that we need 5G in order to achieve mass role out of the "internet of things", particularly autonomous vehicles. There aren't that many companies that can provide the stuff to make a 5G network, and all of them have their downsides. Huawei would be the best bet, if it wasn't for those pesky Chinese State spies that would have the ability to crash the whole the thing at a click of a mouse.