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A planned visit to the UK by the Australian Parliament's powerful intelligence and security committee has been abruptly cancelled amid a diplomatic row over Clown Prince Boris Johnson's controversial decision to allow Chinese telco Huawei into its 5G network.

The committee was supposed to travel to Britain in late March and spend the first week of April meeting the House of Commons intelligence committee, Britain's security agencies and other high-level national security figures, as part of the countries' mutual links and membership of the elite Five Eyes spying club.

Diplomatic tensions over Britain's decision to allow Chinese telco Huawei into its 5G network have boiled over after confidential discussions with Australia about the policy were leaked.

The UK's High Commissioner has taken the rare step of writing to the heads of two federal parliamentary committees to formally protest the leak of details of sensitive talks involving Britain's visiting Foreign Secretary.

Last week UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab travelled to Canberra on his first international trip since the Brexit process was formally concluded to strengthen trade ties with Australia.

His visit took place just days after Britain became the first of Australia's "five-eyes" intelligence allies to ignore United States warnings to ban Huawei technology from new high-speed wireless networks.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-...-raab/11967520
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15-02-2020, 04:15 AM
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Personally I wouldn't share the intelligence about the contents of my smart fridge with the Chinese but that's beside the point. Never in a million years would I be condoning using high level Huawei tech. Why?..There is plenty of comment and credible reporting on this subject. Follow it up.
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Who needs Huawei when the whole system leaks like a sieve. ☺
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15-02-2020, 06:57 AM
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Hi

There is a huge difference of opinion about the dangers posed by Huawei.

Our Techies are relaxed about it.

There is a political dimension to this, Trump wants to put pressure on the Chinese and have his own systems in.

It is part of his Trade War.
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15-02-2020, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by bruce ->

... The house of commons intelligence committee,
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Don't knock it too hard.

There's more than a few very smart cookies behind them.
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Does the ABC really refer to our PM as "Clown Prince Boris Johnson"?
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15-02-2020, 11:17 AM
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Does the ABC really refer to our PM as "Clown Prince Boris Johnson"?
No. What the ABC said was:

Diplomatic tensions over Britain's decision to allow Chinese telco Huawei into its 5G network have boiled over after confidential discussions with Australia about the policy were leaked.

The ABC can reveal the UK's High Commissioner has taken the rare step of writing to the heads of two federal parliamentary committees to formally protest the leak of details of sensitive talks involving Britain's visiting Foreign Secretary.

One of those committees — Parliament's powerful intelligence and security committee — has now cancelled a planned visit to the United Kingdom amid the quickly escalating dispute between the allies.

MPs and senators were due to meet with Britain's security agencies and the UK Parliament's intelligence committee in March and April.

While Australia was quick to exclude Huawei equipment from its 5G network, several major allies including the UK are not convinced that a ban is warranted.

Last week, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab travelled to Canberra on his first international trip since the Brexit process was formally concluded to strengthen trade ties with Australia.

His visit took place just days after Britain became the first of Australia's "five-eyes" intelligence allies to ignore United States warnings to ban Huawei technology from new high-speed wireless networks.

During his Canberra stopover, Mr Raab discussed his Government's controversial Huawei decision in private meetings with members of Federal Parliament's Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-...-raab/11967520
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15-02-2020, 11:20 AM
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No, that's artistic licence.
Yeah ... I clicked the link after asking the question.

But the aussie do see him as a clown, don't they? We see him as erm slightly eccentric.
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Yeah ... I clicked the link after asking the question.

But the aussie do see him as a clown, don't they? We see him as erm slightly eccentric.
Not that I know of. Some on the far left might use that term but I haven't seen it in the mainstream media. That's just me.
 
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