The US President took a reconciliatory tone with Huawei on Thursday, expressing little appetite to sign in a ban on the Chinese telecoms company as Washington gears up for the final leg of trade negotiations with China, the Financial Times reports. “I want the US to win through competition, not by blocking out currently more […]
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In an interview with CNN, Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen said Asian nations should prepare for increased aggression from Beijing, which she said was growing “every day”. “If it’s Taiwan today, people should ask who’s next?” said Tsai. “Any country in the region – if it no longer wants to submit to the will of China, […]
Politicians are tabling opposition to a China-funded video surveillance project that would implement Huawei technology, the Wall Street Journal reports, as fears surrounding the telecoms giant reach China’s backyard. The “Safe Philippines” deal – a $400 million project signed last November during Xi Jinping’s state visit – involves the installation of 12,000 closed circuit television […]
Opening the UK’s future 5G infrastructure to Huawei technology would be “naïve” and “irresponsible”, according to a report by British defence think-tank the Royal United Services Institute, as pressure mounts on policymakers to resist the Chinese telecoms group’s spreading influence. Earlier this week the National Cyber Security Centre, an arm of intelligence agency GCHQ, determined […]
Talks over the refinancing of a $20 billion East Coast Rail Link in Malaysia are “in the last mile”, according to a government official, just a month after the Mahathir administration cancelled the project. Negotiations were re-opened after China expressed willingness to cut the cost and size of the rail project, the FT reports, which […]