The head of the UK’s GCHQ intelligence service, Jeremy Fleming, believes that the growing involvement of Chinese tech firms in Western economies poses a “hugely complex technological challenge,” that runs much deeper than Huawei, according to the Independent. “We have to understand the opportunities and threats from China’s technological offer. Understand the global nature of […]
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A group of policymakers from across the aisle co-signed a letter to block Huawei from supplying its solar energy generators to the US grid, the SCMP reports, broadening the government’s skepticism towards the tech firm from telecommunications. The 11 lawmakers appealed to the Department of Homeland Security and the Energy Department to keep Huawei from […]
The US President said that recent progress in trade talks means he will push back the raising of tariffs on a bundle of Chinese goods, adding that he will likely wrap up proceedings at a meeting with President Xi, Reuters reports. “I will be delaying the US increase in tariffs scheduled for March 1. Assuming […]
The new refinery project in China’s Northeast province of Liaoning was agreed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) during his two-day visit to China, Al-Jazeera reports. China is likely to become an increasingly important ally for Saudi Arabia, both economically and politically, as the middle-eastern state faces frosty ties following the alleged government-sponsored […]
The US-China trade talks rumble on, and the details are pretty irrelevant beyond the following – it looks like progress is being made, it looks like an overall structure of a deal is emerging, it looks like it will take the heat off China for a while and involve promises of purchases of lots of […]