The fate of EU and NATO in times of US-China rivalry
Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the strategic choices ahead of NATO and the European Union as the US intensifies its encirclement of China
After 3 years of house arrest in Canada, Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou returns to China
Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, was held under house arrest in Canada over allegations of the tech giant flouting US-imposed sanctions on Iran. China continues to insist that her arrest and prosecution was political
China’s trade deals to the east and west rewrite the rules
Vijay Prashad of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and John Ross, Senior Fellow Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, discuss the RCEP and EU-China trade deals
Why America’s economic war on China is failing
Trump faces negative legal judgments about his “trade war,” and the US economy slips into negative territory. Meanwhile, China has emerged as the major driver of the global economy
How does China plan to counter US sanctions?
Charles Xu from Qiao Collective talks about the short and medium-term strategy of Huawei and China in general to deal with the US sanctions.
What’s behind the US attack on China’s tech sector
Charles Xu of the Qiao Collective talks about the context behind the US assault on China’s technological sector, especially Huawei. He talks about the strategies of development deployed by China over the past few decades
The US tech war on China and the 5G battlefield
It is certainly not game over for Huawei, as many tech analysts are concluding. They have already pronounced the game over twice, once over Google’s Android system denial, later on ARM processor ban
As west gangs up, what are Huawei’s options?
France has become the latest country to move towards barring Huawei equipment on its 5G networks.
Who benefits from the US escalation against Huawei?
The UK ban on Huawei is a direct result of US pressure on its allies to not allow the Chinese company into their markets.
UK’s Huawei ban is a bid to nullify Chinese lead in telecom
Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the decision of the United Kingdom to ban Huawei from its 5G network
COVID-19 and the Future of Neoliberalism
Atul Bhardwaj talks to Prof. Inderjeet Parmar on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the world order, the options before countries in terms of policy making and the new forms of resistance that may emerge.
US and China arrive at truce in trade war but concerns remain
US president Donald Trump and Chinese vice-premier Liu He reached an agreement on October 11 whereby the former agreed to not implement tariffs while the latter promised to increase agricultural imports
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