Michael Pillsbury: Trump Has Not Reversed His Position on Huawei
“The super-hawks are now attacking the president for concessions and for reversing himself. This is just fake news,” Pillsbury said.

“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.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday his regime would invest “immediately” into Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE to bring a 4G wireless network to the country, which is suffering chronic shortages of food, medicine, electricity, and gasoline under his rule.

Following the U.S. placing Chinese tech firm Huawei on an “entity list,” Chinese consumers are considering a boycott of U.S. tech giant Apple.

Ren Zhengfei, the founder and chief executive of Chinese technology firm Huawei, said in an interview Tuesday he had long expected conflict with the U.S. government because his company “sacrificed individuals and families only for the goal to stand at the top of the world.”

Last week, President Trump signed an executive order effectively barring Chinese telecom giant Huawei from doing business in the United States.

Tech giant Google has temporarily reversed its decision to revoke Chinese tech manufacturer Huawei’s Android operating system license, which would have crippled its ability to compete with Samsung in the smartphone market.

A series of columns in Chinese government-controlled media on Tuesday condemned the United States for policies to protect American industries and national security from the Communist Party, calling the Trump administration’s trade policy “the most barbarian method ever in the history of modern international economic and trade relations.”

Tech firm Google has cut ties with Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei Technologies and will no longer license its Android operating system to the company. One industry expert called the move an “instant kill switch” to Huawei’s desire to overtake Samsung in the global market.

Chinese officials and state-run media condemned President Donald Trump’s executive order effectively blocking Chinese telecom giant Huawei from U.S. markets, deriding it as an example of Trump’s “Cold War mentality” and vowing to protect Chinese business interests by any means necessary.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is issuing an executive order to help protect the United States against foreign adversaries that are taking advantage of technological vulnerabilities to threaten U.S. communications systems.

President Donald Trump reportedly will sign an executive order this week banning U.S. telecom companies from using equipment that has been deemed risky to national security. The order will not specify individual companies or countries of origin, but it will clearly have the most profound impact on Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

China’s state-run newspaper Global Times revealed in a column defending the nation’s authoritarian “social credit system” Monday that the communist regime had blacklisted 13.49 million Chinese citizens for being “untrustworthy.”

The ongoing proliferation of Chinese surveillance and information technologies in Latin America can be used to exert social control, erode democratic governance, and challenge U.S. and regional strategic interest, expert witnesses told a House panel on Thursday.

CBC News reported on Sunday that Canada is frustrated with the United States for not doing enough to resolve tensions between Ottawa and Beijing – tensions which escalated into an economic showdown after Canada detained Chinese tech mogul Meng Wanzhou of the Huawei telecom corporation for extradition to the U.S. on charges of fraud and violating sanctions.

Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State for Defence, has been sacked by Prime Minister Theresa May after details of a National Security Council meeting in which Chinese tech giant Huawei’s potential involvement in 5G infrastructure was leaked to the press.

China enlisted its telecommunications giant Huawei to build Ecuador’s former socialist President Rafael Correa a replica of its sprawling national surveillance system, helping him monitor dissidents and protect his government, the New York Times revealed on Wednesday.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warns countries around the world to avoid joining the “Belt and Road” initiative because “China is playing a zero-sum game internationally and willing to win at all costs.”

Theresa May appears set to approve Chinese participation in “non-core” elements of Britain’s 5G network via Huawei, delivering a blow to the Five Eyes security alliance of Anglosphere nations, reports suggest.

China lashed out angrily on Monday at U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for criticizing Chinese policy in South America. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Pompeo’s remarks were “lies” and accused him of using “wantonly slanderous, deliberately instigating, irresponsible, and unreasonable” rhetoric.

President Donald Trump directed attention to the news that Chinese telecom company Huawei had hired a former President Barack Obama official as a lobbyist.

A group of conservative leaders are pressing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block efforts by a group of satellite operators seeking to sell spectrum space critical to the operation of forthcoming 5G technology.

United States prosecutors said on Thursday that classified information gathered under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will be introduced in the federal trial of Chinese telecom company Huawei, which has been charged with committing money laundering, bank fraud, and wire fraud in the course of violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology cut ties with Chinese technology manufacturers Huawei and ZTE this week after the US launched federal investigations into both companies.
