Sputnik — Senior White House Officials Agree to Cut Huawei From Global Chip Supply – Report

Hybrid war with China intensifies.

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Senior White House Officials Agree to Cut Huawei From Global Chip Supply – Report

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American "exceptionalism" at work. (snark)

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On a tech roll. Copier no more?

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Bolton’s exit raises odds of US-China trade deal — Spengler

Good article, and I agree that John Bolton's departure is a positive move. 

That said, the larger obstacle is US Trade Representative Robert Lightizer. Bolton's focus was on taking down Huawei. Lightizer's focus is taking down change with a view to regime change. 

This is ultimately a replay of the successful push to take down the USSR, which the American elite believe was accomplished by economic warfare. 

The real objectives are the Chinese Communist Party and communism as a threat to capitalism. 

Robert Lightizer is acting as a surrogate for Steve Bannon. John Bolton was more a Sheldon Adelson surrogate, therefore focused on Israeli dominance of the Middle East. Trump is beholden to Adelson for campaign finance, so John Bolton's leaving will not materially affect the situation, since Trump will still have to placate Adelson to keep the tap open.

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Sputnik — Great Piece of Kit! Huawei to Launch Google Maps Rival by October

Map Kit will be available in forty languages, Huawei has announced, and despite being a ‘latecomer’ to the mapping industry, the Chinese tech giant owns telecom base stations across 160 countries and regions, which it can use to implement the new service globally, Xiang Ligang, Director-General for the Information Consumption Alliance said.

The Chinese tech giant has also partnered with Russian tech heavyweight Yandex and US travel company Booking Holdings to build the mapping service, a source familiar with the matter told China Daily....

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China Now Has More Fortune 500 Companies Than the US — Gu Liping

China tops the U.S. in number of companies on Fortune's Global 500 list published on Monday with 129 companies listed, exceeding the U.S., which had 121 companies listed, for the first time since the debut of the list in 1990, and becoming the first country to defeat the U.S. since WWII. 

The overall turnover of the top 500 firms reached 32.7 trillion U.S. dollars, 8.9 percent higher over a year earlier. Up 14.5 percent year on year, the gross profit hit a record high at 2.15 trillion U.S. dollars with a net margin of 6.6 percent....

Despite the U.S. ban and trade tensions, Huawei rose to 61 from 72 in the past year, seeing a 22-percent year-on-year increase in sales volume at 109 billion U.S. dollars, and 27.5-percent growth of profits at nine billion U.S. dollars.

Aimed at globalization, Huawei has built its own global value chain with more than one-third of its core suppliers from the United States.

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Sputnik International Huawei Founder Ren Zhengfei Says US Will 'Fight IoT Next", Block Smart Tech Industry – Reports

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei told the Financial Times on Thursday that he expects the US to fight against his company's push into the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart factory technologies.

Monopoly capitalism at work.

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The strategy of the Trump administration only makes sense if the US can re-colonize China with its hybrid warfare — economic, information, and cyber. How likely is that?

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You knew about this already, but Pepe Escobar fills in some detail.

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Sputnik — China to Ship 225 Million Devices with HongMeng and Ark OS Before End of Year – Reports

Chinese tech titan Huawei, is reportedly gearing up to ship almost 225 million devices already running on HongMeng or Ark OS by October 2019 after the Android ban due to the sanctions imposed by the US administration....

This is occurring as the smartphone market tips away from luxury phones like the iPhone and Galaxy toward less expensive products.

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Sputnik — Huawei Trademarks Its Own Mobile OS Around World After US Ban

The cat's now out of the bag. Secret no longer.

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Sputnik — China’s Ambassador Warns UK of Threat to Trade, Investment Ties Over Attempts to Block Huawei

"You are either with us or against us," works in more ways than one. the UK is discovering. "Want access to the Chinese market much?"

International relations isn't beanbag.

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Sputnik International — Expert on Huawei: US Hopes to Maintain Its Monopoly in IT Field, but This Attitude Is Short-Sighted

The elephant in the room now is that the tech market is global and the rising demand is in non-Western emerging economies, where price point can be determinative. Huawei is succeeding because it can produce highly competitive products not so much because they are superior technologically but because they are adequate and less expensive than the competition. Apple has chosen to position itself as a luxury product and so it is not chiefly threatened. But the bulk of tech market is price-sensitive and will go with the lowest price products that adequate rather than products that are either "optimal" or "bling."

LINUX is a open source operating system based on a Unix-like kernel that is already available. Steve Jobs built OS X on a descendant of Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) that was based on Research UNIX. It's not like Huawei with its enormous resources would have to pioneer something entirely innovative to be competitive. It would even be possible to develop an Android alternative.

What about chips, you say. Well, it's not like the budding Russian-Chinese alliance can't or won't develop a competing chip industry. No doubt this has already been in the works for some time, since both Russia and China know their tech vulnerabilities.

Google knows that and is concerned enough to lobby the Trump administration against attempting to isolate Huawei and by implication other Chinese technology companies. Google is using an argument based on national security in this regard, but but the subtext is that trying to use anti-competitive policy against China is likely instead to increase the threat of Chinese competition by forcing China to become self-sufficient and independent of the West, just as US sanctions have forced Russia to adopt import substitution.

It doesn't look like POTUS has sufficiently thought this through, especially knowing that China is a long hauler whereas Wall Street is quarter to quarter.

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Southfront — Huawei In Discussions To Install Rostelecom’s Aurora OS On Its Devices: Media

Chinese tech giant Huawei is allegedly in discussions with Russia to implement the Russian Aurora operation system (OS) on its devices, the Bell reported on June 10th.

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Hopefully, all this will lead to more competition in the field of operating systems down the line. Once the Chinese, Russians and Indians gear up it is going to be a new game. And we are beginning to see that.

Huawei's OS, which remains Android-compatible, is reportedly based on a lightweight microkernel which "can react quickly to adjustments and batches," with engineers creating the system after closely studying both Android and Apple's iOS, its nearest competitor. Presently, the pair of operating systems account for nearly 100 percent of current smartphone operating systems.

Last week, a company source toldGlobal Times that the new OS, named 'HongMeng' OS in China and 'Oak OS' for the overseas clients, would likely launch by the third quarter of 2019, and definitely no later than next spring.

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Russia has offered Huawei to consider an option of using a Russian software ecosystem at various devices of the Chinese corporation, a source familiar of details of the meeting between Russian Telecom Minister Konstantin Noskov and Deputy Chairman of Huawei Board Guo Ping told TASS on Tuesday.

Further to the domestic Aurora Operating System (OS), social media, search engine and antiviruses were also discussed, according to the source.

"Aurora was not the only item for discussion. An ecosystem of Russian software was offered to Huawei at large: social media, search engine, antiviruses, and so on," the source said.

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Okwonkwo — Before the US started harassing Huawei, there was Toshiba of Japan and Alstom of France in the same boat

Brook no competitors. Huawei is nothing new. But taking a country the size of China is. The US did not need the Japanese or French markets. The Chinese market is quite a different matter.

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The consequence of the the 737 MAX accidents give China a tool to exert pressure of its own. The credibility of the U.S. regulator FAA is damaged as it was the last one to ground the planes. It is China that will decide when those planes are allowed back into its air. What if it does not do that. What if it buys less planes:

No other country has greater demand for aircraft: In the 20 years through 2037, Boeing estimates Chinese purchases at 7,690 new planes worth $1.2 trillion.

Airbus will be happy to sell all those planes. Unless of course Trump makes a deal and lets Huawei off the hook.

Forget Airbus. After having enormous success in military export, Russia is gearing up for the civilian market, which it will soon begin to take a piece of in any case.

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Marko Marjanovic — Big Blow for Huawei as Japanese, Korean, British Firms Reconsider or Suspend Cooperation as Well

Huawei’s suppliers in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan (ROC), and Britain are examining if they can continue to make business with Huawei, while some have already declared a suspension in cooperation.

The issue is that these non-American companies nonetheless use some American components of technology, and if they proceed they will be sanctioned by the US themselves.

It is the same reason why Russia’s Sukhoi did not in the end sell its SSJ-100 airliners to Iran….

Apparently some have forgotten that Nazi Germany was way ahead of the West in development of rocketry, jet aircraft, and atomic weapons. The US instituted the Manhattan Project to catch up.  And remember how MIG-15's ended US control of the skies in Korea? The US had to scramble to bring its own jets into service as quickly as possible. Certainly, China and Russia will try to do the same to become self-sufficient in technology, and they have the resources to do so if they choose. Now they have no choice.

Skeptics point out that this will take time. Well, both China and Russia are in this for the long haul. The tech world is splitting, whatever that will entail subsequently.

In the end, these countries that the US views as adversaries will emerge stronger and more self-sufficient, and they will also be stiffer competitors in the global economy. Russia and China will also be forced to cooperate out of necessity, deepening the fissure between West and Global North, and East and Global South.

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Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon gave an impassioned account of what is driving the US war on Chinese tech firm Huawei… and trade has little to do with it. The US wants to destroy its competitor, for good.

Capitalism is about monopoly power. Free market competition as modeled by neoclassical economics reduces profit to costs, eliminating rents.

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Chinese firm is a queen on tech chessboard, but Beijing will just tell its whiz-kids to reach the next level….

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RT — Huawei CEO says company’s own OS will run Android apps - reports

My, my. turns out that Huawei was not only making its own chips in anticipation of exclusion, but also preparing its own operating system. Obviously, native developers will create their own apps hosted in a Huawei store. This market is lost to US firms (think Google and Apple).

The decoupling of the US from China and end of Chimerica is leading to a new division of the global economy into blocs, on one hand, and on the other, to a push for national self-sufficiency and control the commanding heights of the economy and finance.

In other words, neoliberal globalization has reached its limit and is now beginning to unwind.

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