When UK Prime Minister Theresa May flew to China last February looking for business deals to cushion the fallout from Brexit, Huawei Technologies Co delivered with a multibillion-dollar commitment to help keep Britain “at the very forefront of the digital age”.
A year later, the UK is among European nations weighing restrictions on the Chinese tech giant that phone carriers say could delay the fifth-generation mobile networks needed to connect driverless cars and automated factories.
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