Huawei Gets Conditional Green Light in Germany as Government Approves Security Bill New network-security legislation is latest setback for U.S. effort to rein in Chinese tech giant Germany has sought a solution that would allow Huawei to do business in the country but with enough monitoring to appease the U.S. Photo: filip singer/Shutterstock By Updated Dec. 16, 2020 2:38 pm ET BERLIN—The German government Wednesday moved closer to allowing the use of Huawei’s technology in 5G mobile networks, giving the Chinese company a small victory on a European continent increasingly aligned with the Trump administration’s anti-Huawei views.