Bipartisan Senate group offers bill to prioritize telecom infrastructure security in U.S. trade policy

Lawmakers including senior Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and John Thune (R-SD) have introduced a bill that would make communications infrastructure security a top priority in U.S. trade negotiations, which they say is key to ensuring secure rollout of global 5G networks and countering the deployment of untrustworthy Chinese technology by U.S. allies.

The reintroduction of the Network Security Trade Act is designed “to ensure U.S. communications infrastructure security is a clear negotiating objective of our country’s trade policy,” the senators...