China is herding over a million Turkic Uyghurs in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) into camps while Beijing simultaneously campaigns against Christmas and Christians in China, with crosses being burnt from the top of steeples.

You might expect former rear admiral John Lord, the chair of the Huawei, to claim Chinese company would not co-operate with China’s laws that require companies to co-operate in intelligence or espionage work, including in modifying their equipment.