European critical infrastructure still struggles with Chinese ICT vendors

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.


Jamie MacColl

Senior Research Fellow

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Dr Pia Hüsch

Research Fellow

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Natasha Buckley

RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech

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