European critical infrastructure still struggles with Chinese ICT vendors
22 July 2025
Published by The Strategist, ASPI
Chinese technology vendors
Five years after the height of debates on banning Huawei from European 5G infrastructure, Spain has quietly handed the Chinese tech giant a contract to store and manage police wiretaps, the legal interceptions of communications ordered by Spanish judges. For €12.3 million, Huawei's OceanStor servers will now store some of the country’s most sensitive law enforcement and intelligence data.