The Donald Trump administration widened its dragnet this week on Chinese companies in a push to slow China’s technological advances. But the plan might backfire.
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The US-China technology Cold War is about to spread, and that will force leaders to make some difficult decisions.
US President Donald Trump says he may resolve a dispute over Huawei as part of a trade agreement with China, yet doing so would undercut American assertions the company poses a national security threat.
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod is joined by Jolla CEO Sami Pienimäki to talk about the implications for the world of smartphone operating systems of the US government’s decision to force Google to hang up on Huawei.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that China’s Huawei, which was put on a US blacklist earlier this month, could be part of a trade pact with the country.
By imposing restrictions on Huawei, the US may force the Chinese company to do something that no one in tech has dared to do for a long time: challenge Google’s control of the Android universe.
As Donald Trump continues to raise the stakes with threats to kneecap Huawei and other companies over what the US says are rising national security risks, officials in Beijing are weighing their options to respond.
Phone companies are scrapping plans to sell Huawei handsets as the impact of a US supply ban spreads, threatening to impede the Chinese technology giant’s global smartphone ambitions.
UK-based chip designer ARM has reportedly informed employees not to work with Chinese technology giant Huawei.
Hikvision plunged as much as the daily limit after the New York Times said the Trump administration was considering curtailing the flow of American technology to China’s top maker of video surveillance gear.