Brazilian Communications Minister Fábio Faria announced on Feb. 1 that no specific companies will be barred from participating in the 5G auction in Brazil, in a move that is seen as a distancing from the “Clean Network” agreement pushed by former U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo to prevent Chinese telecom giant Huawei from winning contracts in third countries.
On the timing, the China-Lusophone Brief reports that “The government decree comes days after a rapprochement between the governments of Jair Bolsonaro and Xi Jinping, with the aim of releasing inputs from China used in the production of vaccines on Brazilian soil.”
