Chips prevent anchor link navigatation

[varadero]

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

Bug

What is the expected behavior?

Anchor links inside (or wrapping) chips should navigate to their href

What is the current behavior?

Placing <a> inside <mat-chip> or placing <mat-chip> inside <a> causes no navigation to the <a>'s href.

What are the steps to reproduce?

1. Click the button "Edit in StackBlitz" in mat-chips page at https://material.angular.io/components/chips/overview and add these two lines:
   <a href="https://google.com"><mat-chip>Does not work as parent</mat-chip></a>
<mat-chip><a href="https://google.com">Does not work as child</a></mat-chip>
2. Click on "Does not work as ..." links

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

Chips that are capable to navigate to another page without the need of javascript code

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?

Angular: 5.1.1
Material: 5.0.1 (does not work with 5.0.0-rc.3 also which was initially loaded by StackBlitz)
OS: Windows 7
TypeScript: The version that StackBlitz uses

Is there anything else we should know?

[StickNitro]

Any news on this?