Huawei claims of US fail to convince

Simply by speaking the plain truth and saying that he is "against taking a product off the market just because there is a possibility that something might happen", German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer provided some headline news for the US media.

That is because the product he was referring to in his remarks in a Saturday interview with a local media outlet was Huawei and the development of his country's 5G network.

That his remarks should prove so newsworthy in the United States lays bare how sensitive the topic is, and how much pressure Washington has sought to impose upon its ally to ban the Chinese company.