Hello, I'm Lawrence Knight. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up, the UK has joined the US in banning Huawei from its 5G networks.

But does anybody else view the Chinese company as a cyber security threat?

Germany has not issued a full ban. France has not issued a full ban. India has not issued a full ban.

South Korea has even made statements

about recent U.S. actions as excessive. Meanwhile, China is busy redesigning the entire internet

in its own image. Where the current internet is very decentralized, this one will be very, very much

so that someone can interrupt it, or indeed someone

can look at the data quite easily. The Cold War in cyberspace, here on Business Daily.

We confronted untrustworthy Chinese technology and telecom providers. We convinced many countries, many countries. And I did this myself

for the most part, not to use Huawei because we think it's an unsafe security risk. It's a big

security risk. I talked many countries out of using it. If they want to do business with us, they can't use it.

Many countries. Well, certainly one country. On Tuesday, under pressure from US President Donald Trump there, the UK announced that it was expelling Huawei from the country's 5G networks.

This despite the fact that the Chinese company's kit had already been installed in newly

built telecoms infrastructure across Britain. The UK, of course, is just one small piece in an

emerging global contest between the US and China to dominate cyberspace. But that didn't change the

fact that this was an economically painful decision by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

I spoke to the BBC's Asia Business correspondent, Karishma Vaswani.

Well, the decision from the British government effectively means that UK mobile providers cannot buy any more new Huawei 5G equipment after 31st of December this year.

And they have to get rid of all of Huawei's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.

So it's quite a wide time frame.

But it follows the pressure from Washington,

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