The United States' European allies are no longer taking Trump's 'apoplectic' threats seriously

Reuters

• Trump's repeated threats to the United States' European allies to fall into line with US policy on Huawei are failing.
• The United Kingdom last month backed a deal with the Chinese telecoms company despite a furious call to prime minister Boris Johnson from the president.
• Now the German government is also preparing to rule out a ban on Huawei.
• Other European leaders are set to follow their lead and defy Trump after the president failed to follow-through on his threats to the UK.
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In recent months Trump has issued a series of threats to European allies which were designed to force them into following his administration's ban on the Chinese telecoms company Huawei.

However, the threats, which included a plan to withdraw from the US intelligence-sharing relationship with the United Kingdom, appear to have failed, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreeing a deal with Huawei anyway.

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