Bipartisan zeal for blocking Chinese suppliers blooms at Senate Commerce hearing on 5G development

The top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee urged scrutiny of foreign components for securely building next generation -- 5G -- networks, in remarks that the panel’s Republican chairman said show a bipartisan approach to advancing the technology.

“We need to have a serious conversation about what level, if any, of foreign components we are going to allow into the 5G network,” Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) said Wednesday in laying out three points for incorporating a cybersecurity strategy into 5G...