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Jan 2020
22m 33s

Huawei Calling (with Bim Afolami MP)

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About this episode

As the government gives Huawei the green light to help build the U.K.'s 5G network, Bim Afolami, Conservative MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Sebastian Salek Britain can't turn its back on technology that can revolutionize the economy.


Plus, Ben Jones, teaching fellow in European foreign policy at King's College London and former foreign affairs adviser to the Liberal Democrats gives Boris Johnson his advice for charting new relations with the U.S. and China after Brexit.

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