I'd expect any country that has the ability to do so to source such key infrastructure from those they trust, whether it be locally or allies they expect to hav

I'd expect any country that has the ability to do so to source such key infrastructure from those they trust, whether it be locally or allies they expect to have for the long term. It's up to the rest of the world to decide what that means for themselves. Now personally, I think that you are making a bit of a false equivalence, but like I said in my first post, the bar for decision making here is lower than what we can prove to each other. If we can't agree on this point, so be it. If you think your country's interests are better served by building up your communications networks with Huawei and not Cisco, or Ericsson, or whoever, that's up to you(r country). I'd like to think that most Western liberal democracies would not come to that conclusion though.