British Prime Minister Boris Johnson granted Huawei a limited role in Britain's 5G mobile network on Tuesday, defying US pressure to exclude the Chinese company from next-generation communications, due to concerns that Beijing might use it to spy.

The British rejection of the American request confused the papers between the United States and its allies. The European Union has put in place new guidelines that allow member states to restrict 5G providers classified as high-risk vendors, and warn of security risks and the risk of relying on a single supplier, which implies ignoring management warnings President Donald Trump is following in Britain's footsteps.

We review the following allies' attitudes towards the use of the Chinese company's technologies:

United States: Either we or Huawei
Washington has increased pressure on its allies to shut down Huawei, the world leader in communications equipment, with a global market share of 28%, arguing that its equipment contains "back doors" that will enable China to spy on other countries. President Trump has yet to comment on Britain's decision.

Australia: We will count on ourselves
Australia prevented Huawei from supplying equipment for the 5G network for cell phones in 2018.

The Chinese company had originally concluded a deal to lay undersea cables to bring high-speed internet to Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, but in 2018 Australia decided to finance and build the infrastructure itself.

New Zealand .. previously banned and relaxed now
New Zealand (a member of the Five Eyes intelligence exchange network with Australia, the United States, Britain, and Canada) prevented local service provider Spark from using Huawei's equipment for 5G technologies in 2018.

Spark said last November that it would not only use Huawei technologies in 5G networks, but would put it on the list of the three companies that include the best equipment suppliers.

Canada: Political fear is greater than technology
The Canadian government is studying the security implications of 5G networks, and it is expected to closely study Britain’s decision to allow Huawei a limited role in building Canadian 5G networks.

Ottawa is also locked in an ongoing bilateral dispute with Beijing, after Canadian authorities arrested Huawei's Meng Wanzhou chief financial officer in December 2018, at a US extradition request.

Germany is following in the footsteps of the European Union
German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked her country's lawmakers - the largest economy in Europe - to wait until after the European Union summit next March before taking a position on Huawei's exclusion in Germany.

Merkel prefers setting strict safety requirements for the fifth generation network, but she is against the exclusion of individual companies, though she faces opposition from her party members who support US calls to ban Huawei completely.

Poland: We don't mind working with Huawei
Huawei has a strong foothold in Poland, but it is still under examination, as its Minister in charge of the digital sector said last December that Poland may have different security demands regarding the core of the 5G system and the rest of the network.

Austria: We don't mind using Huawei equipment
Chancellor Sebastian Kors did not rule out the deployment of Huawei equipment in future 5G networks in Austria, but said the country would coordinate its decisions with the rest of the European Union.