by Gordon G. Chang, GATESTONE INSTITUTE • October 10, 2020
- Vice President Biden may say he will be tougher on China than Trump, but his supporters have signaled that he will not. Max Baucus, who served as ambassador to China in the Obama years, predicted that, with a Biden win, there would be a “reset” in U.S.-China relations.
- So, expect chip companies to lobby a President Biden to restart the flow of chips to Huawei Technologies. The sound of a pen gliding over the signature line on a waiver is music to the ears of one Shenzhen-based threat to the United States—as well as its masters in Beijing.
By cutting off the supply of semiconductors, the Trump administration is severely undermining the viability of China’s Huawei Technologies, currently the world’s leading manufacturer of both telecom networking gear and smartphones.
And as goes Huawei, so goes China’s ambitions of dominating global communications.
Washington has accused Huawei of persistent theft of U.S. intellectual property. In addition, the current administration believes the company poses a national security threat because Beijing uses its equipment to surreptitiously take data flowing through its servers and other networking gear.
At the beginning of this year, it was a sure bet that the Shenzhen-based Huawei, already in more than 170 countries, would dominate 5G, the fifth generation of wireless communications, for years.
@ sabashimon:
Hi, Sabashimon.
I realize full well, that China’s self-inflicted plagues cause their own citizens to suffer the most (some of which are in my own family); and the COVID plague is only the most recent. In the famine of 1959-61, some 15-55 million of them died. To say the Chinese are not culpable, is to deny that they chose the Communist government that has inflicted these disasters on them — just as the Russians chose a similar system that caused a 4-million-death famine in 1932/33, and as the Germans also chose a similar system that took them into a war that caused some six million Germans to die. No foreign power caused these things to happen to them: They did it to themselves. Now my own country (the US) is about to choose. It remains to be seen, which way we will go, but only idiots will say that the Russians and Chinese are “making us do it”.
People have been playing the blame shifting game since the Garden of Eden; and I do not plan to play it here. China is on a swift downhill slide: blame it on whomever you want. They choose to blame Donald Trump for their misery; and whatever you think, they are wrong.
Perhaps, but unfortunately that would unfairly impact the Chinese citizenry, which for the most part, if not completely, is devoid of culpabilty with regards to the virus.
The party, the government and it’s leaders? Now that is a different is a whole ‘nuther matter.
Line ‘em all up.
China deserves every plague that comes its way.
https://www.worldtribune.com/communist-party-forces-chinas-churches-to-replace-cross-five-pointed-star/