The U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica said on Thursday it planned to organize a regional conference on protecting 5G networks in April next year, days after China rejected cyber-security and spying concerns raised by Costa Rica's president. The embassy announcement follows a meeting between the Central American nation's president, Rodrigo Chaves, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Verma. Earlier this month, Chaves told reporters "the country where Huawei is based doesn't have a solid judicial framework that prevents spying," prompting China's local embassy to blast this as baseless and say such statements could undermine economic ties. In Thursday's statement,…