Left-wing billionaire and political donor George Soros wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on Monday in which he praised President Donald Trump’s policies toward China. He then urged Congress to maintain the president’s firm stand against Chinese telecom giant Huawei – overriding the White House if necessary, should Huawei become a bargaining chip in the larger trade war.
The Chinese government reacted with anger on Tuesday to allegations of technology theft against its leading telecom company Huawei, while company representatives categorically denied the charges and accused the U.S. government of attempting to sabotage its business.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is attempting to block the construction of an undersea cable linking Los Angeles to Hong Kong due to national security concerns.
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Tuesday warned that Chinese surveillance technology, particularly facial recognition systems, is appearing in cities around the world and poses a serious threat to Americans traveling abroad.
Vietnam, which presently has tense relations with China, is building a 5G network without using products from China’s telecom giant Huawei.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday that the United States is working to secure the freedom of two Canadians held prisoner by Communist China. Pompeo stressed that Meng Wanzhou, an executive of China’s Huawei telecom company held by Canada for rendition to the U.S. to face fraud charges, will not be used as a bargaining chip in the American trade war with China. China, meanwhile, ordered Canada to release Meng if it wants relations with Beijing to improve in any meaningful way.
China’s technologies giant Huawei, the largest telecommunications company in the world, is enabling digital authoritarianism in Africa by helping dictators spy on their opposition, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday.
Chinese billionaire Ren Zhengfei, founder of telecommunications titan Huawei, wrote an internal memo this week laying out plans to overhaul the company over the next three to five years and create an “invincible iron army” to fight against regulatory pressure and competition from the United States.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday the Atlantic alliance must counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific, working closely with allies such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea.
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Tom Cotton (R-AK), Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent Wednesday a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, demanding answers about the company’s relationship with China’s Huawei after reports revealed that the search giant had claimed that were not conducting substantial business in China. They said that Google put its “profits before country” with its partnership with Huawei.
China’s Communist Party is “very happy to kill tens of thousands of Americans each year” with its fentanyl exports, knowing of overdoses related to the opiate’s abuse, said Gordon Chang
According to a recent report, Chinese tech manufacturer Huawei and Silicon Valley giant Google were working together on a new home smart device before the government placed restrictions on doing business with Huawei.
“We should be cutting Huawei off and trying to kill it,” advised Gordon Chang, columnist at the Daily Beast and author of The Coming Collapse of China, in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
A report published by the Washington Post on Monday charged China’s telecom giant Huawei with secretly helping North Korea create and maintain its wireless network, possibly in violation of U.S. bans on the delivery of sensitive electronic equipment to the isolated Communist regime in Pyongyang. Another report from Czech Republic media accused the company of secretly harvesting personal information about its Czech customers.
“Google is a very responsible company. We have maintained very good cooperation with each other,” said the Chairman of Huawei.
The Apollo 11 moon landing’s lessons – particularly the need for national industrial policy – are being lost, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding
China’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that another Canadian citizen has been arrested, this time on drug offenses. The Canadian foreign ministry, Global Affairs Canada, announced on Saturday that a Canadian had received consular services while under detention.
If 5G wireless is so clearly a concern for U.S. intelligence, a portion of the intelligence budget could be invested in creating an American competitor to China’s dominant Huawei corporation.
A study published this week by researchers from Fulbright University Vietnam and the London-based Henry Jackson Society revealed much deeper ties between employees of the Huawei telecom company and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) than the corporation has previously admitted.
China expert and Asia Times columnist David P. Goldman joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight to talk about the apparent victory of the protest movement in Hong Kong.
This could allay fears that the Trump administration has gone too far in easing restrictions on the Chinese telecom company.
Author and Daily Beast columnist Gordon Chang appeared on Breitbart News Daily this week to discuss Apple’s decision to move production to China and recent news about Huawei. Chang called Apple’s decision to move Mac computer production to China from Texas “unbelievable,” adding “Apple has told us which side it’s on.”
“The super-hawks are now attacking the president for concessions and for reversing himself. This is just fake news,” Pillsbury said.
China expert and Daily Beast columnist Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, told SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily that President Donald Trump is making some bold moves to get nuclear talks with North Korea moving again while appearing to ease pressure on China to secure a trade deal.
Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday that employees of Chinese telecom giant Huawei have “collaborated on research projects with Chinese armed forces personnel, indicating closer ties to the country’s military than previously acknowledged.”
U.S. President Donald Trump touched down in Osaka, Japan, early Thursday morning ahead of his third G20 summit meeting.
Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on Monday asked Canada’s Justice Minister David Lametti to halt the process of extraditing her to the United States to face charges of bank fraud and sanctions evasion.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday criticized the United States for reportedly launching a cyberattack on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and turned American criticism of Chinese technology on its head by claiming Washington is the party waging a long campaign of electronic espionage against Beijing.
A law firm representing Double Time Capital, the investment fund co-founded by Dan McCready, the Democratic nominee in the upcoming special election in North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District, sent a letter on Wednesday to the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) demanding that it retract recent statements about McCready’s company.
The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, lamented U.S. global economic leadership in a column Monday as “truly agonizing for the world,” warning that following America’s lead will create “ruin” for “innocent economies.”
The Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe at Google are reportedly attempting to maintain business ties with Chinese tech giant Huawei despite the company’s addition to the entity list by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
A poll released last week by JMC Analytical shows that the September special election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District between Democrat Dan McCready and Republican State Senator Dan Bishop is a statistical tie.
China accused the United States of waging “naked economic terrorism” against it on Thursday as Beijing escalated the rhetoric surrounding its trade war with America.
The Global Times says it has “absolute confidence that China will win and deal a knockout blow to the US economy.”
Analysts at Citi dropped their outlook on Apple this week over worries that the ongoing trade war between China and the U.S. could affect Apple’s sales in the country. According to the analysts, a boycott could drop Apple’s sales in the country by 50 percent.
China’s Huawei telecom corporation filed a motion in U.S. district court on Tuesday asking for summary judgment against the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which banned federal agencies and contractors from using Huawei equipment. Hearings have been scheduled for September.
Billionaire Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei brushed off the idea that the company could be included in trade negotiations between the United States and China.
“The best 5G technology is made by a Chinese company called Huawei,” Daily Show host Trevor Noah says in a clip that ran on state TV.
The new Huawei campus, called Ox Horn, consists of replicas of well-known palaces and castles in Europe. It even has a Versailles.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday accused Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei of lying about his company’s ties to the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party, which controls it.
