What is Huawei's 5G Security Threat?

The German Marshall Fund's Asia program ran a half hour podcast titled "Huawei or the Highway" with Janka Oertel and Jonas Parello Plesner.

This informative and lucid discussion addressed the security risk of China's Huawei to 5G networks. It emphasized that the problem is much broader than Huawei. The experts acknowledged that it is not clear how serious a threat Huawei poses to internet security. In addition, no one knows what the additional cost will be if countries ban Huawei equipment, which has not yet been officially banned in the United States. The major European 5G competitors to Huawei are Ericcson and Nokia.

There was no mention of Africa in the discussion, but growing numbers of African countries are turning to Huawei and other Chinese companies for their telecommunication networks.