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The news hit the White House with a deafening thud: the United Kingdom would allow Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, to build the backbone of its next-generation telecommunications network. Known as 5G, the network was expected to be up to a hundred times faster than its predecessor, ushering in a new era of connectivity that would enmesh everything from refrigerators to factory robots to autonomous weapons in a so-called Internet of Things. The Trump administration believed that if this new era w
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