The head of the Federal Communications Commission and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee are teaming up to persuade European telecom companies to stop doing business with Chinese equipment-maker Huawei Technologies Co.

Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr are working with the Trump administration “to castrate Huawei in Europe,” a spokesperson for Cotton said.

The push is the latest in a more than decade-long effort by Washington to get US allies to stop installing Huawei equipment, if not rip it out entirely, and cease doing business with the company over security concerns due to its ties to the Chinese government.

The European Union agreed years ago to restrict suppliers that are considered high risk, including Huawei and ZTE. But so far fewer than half of the 27 EU member countries have taken legal measures to limit or entirely ban Huawei from their wireless networks.

Allies have been less than enthusiastic about cutting ties with the company because Huawei gear is typically inexpensive and well-made, and there are few alternatives. Removing Huawei from core networks would cost billions of euros for European operators, according to researchers. For more on this, read the full Bloomberg report.

With the Trump administration declaring a tariff war on the world, demands from the U.S. Government against Huawei could fall on deaf ears. Perhaps it's the U.S. that allies should be concerned about and not China. In fact, allies Portugal, Canada and Germany are now reconsidering their military aircraft orders to the U.S. due to unreasonable tariffs. 

In the dark days ahead, Canadian and European consumers could, in the blink of an eye,  begin to boycott U.S. tech companies like Apple, Google, Dell and HP in favor of foreign phones from Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi and Motorola and computers from Lenovo and Asus. It'll go from just a tariff war to citizens outright dropping U.S. brands on everything in retaliation.