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Business Insider: The United States' European allies are no longer taking Trump's 'apoplectic' threats seriously
* 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.
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.
Trump reportedly reacted with rage to Johnson's decision and slammed down the phone on the prime minister in a call last month.
However, far from fearing a similar reaction from Trump, other European countries are now moving to take a very similar position to Johnson.
This week Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats backed a positions paper which ruled out an outright ban on Huawei.
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WNU Editor: The priority in Europe is to develop commercial and trade relations with China. U.S. concerns on national security over Huawei is not their priority.
