Five Eyes not united over 5G issue
Add BT as a preferred sourceUNITED States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo makes a key trip to the Asia- Pacific this week, with a key stop-off at the Asean Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Thailand before heading to Australia.
In the Sydney leg this weekend, a key bilateral agenda item will be the future of Five Eyes - one of the world's most successful intelligence gathering and sharing partnerships, now under new stress over Chinese participation in 5G telecommunications networks.
The origins of Five Eyes stem from the remarkable intelligence relationship that the United States and United Kingdom enjoyed in World War II which was institutionalised in the 1946 BRUSA (later UKUSA) Agreement. Canada, Australia and New Zealand - as former UK dominions - began representing themselves in the intelligence pact in the late 1940s and 1950s.
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