For US politicians, China’s potential to dominate cutting-edge technologies poses one of the biggest geopolitical threats of the next few decades. President Xi Jinping is similarly worried the US will block China’s rise.
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Huawei Technologies saw slight revenue and profit growth in 2020, in line with its expectations, its rotating chairman said on Tuesday, even as Washington toughened up sanctions against the equipment maker.
Huawei has taken the wraps off its latest high-end foldable smartphone, hoping to stake out a place in a fast-expanding category despite dwindling expectations that the US will roll back sanctions anytime soon.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said social media silencing such as Twitter’s lifetime ban on former US President Donald Trump risk leading to even more divisiveness.
Semiconductor firms are seeking extra time to appeal last-minute Trump administration moves to block sales to China’s Huawei, hoping the Biden administration will reverse course.
Huawei Technologies’ founder said on Tuesday he was confident that the Biden administration would bear in mind US business interests when forming its policy towards the Chinese technology giant.
The Biden administration will work to safeguard American telecommunications networks from “untrusted vendors” like Huawei Technologies that threaten national security, the White House said.
The government of Eswatini has backed out of its pledge, made less than two weeks ago, to join the US’s anti-China “Clean Network” programme.
Restrictions should be placed on Internet companies so they aren’t in a position to make unilateral decisions that will affect freedom of speech and democratic values, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said.
Eswatini – formerly Swaziland – has become the first, and possibly last, country in Africa to sign a pledge to join the outgoing Trump administration’s anti-China “Clean Network” programme.