I guess it's mostly ideological. The US has been spying on europeans for _years_. All these leaks by Snowden showed really good how they threat europeans. Every

I guess it's mostly ideological. The US has been spying on europeans for _years_. All these leaks by Snowden showed really good how they threat europeans. Everything which has been leaked can't be used anymore. So if you want to continue spying on telecommunications you need to have some control. There's nothing more easy than a smearing campaign against the only other big telecommunications vendor and putting some pressure on the decision makers behind curtains. For any european country there's no difference between spying equipment from the US or China.