German Chancellor Merkel said on Thursday that, in the process of promoting more digital sovereignty, Chinese suppliers would be excluded from Germany's future telecommunications networks for security reasons. She said, "Where possible, we will replace components with our own produced components, for example, components in 5G networks." She also stated that Germany's 6G network would not allow any components from China. As trade and geopolitical tensions threaten critical supply chains, Europe is increasingly concerned about reliance on foreign technologies, including Asian semiconductors as well as American artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure. Merkel will raise the issue of digital sovereignty at the summit with Macron next week, discussing how to make both countries technologically independent from China and the United States.
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