Trump Stretches Helping Hand to Huawei While “Forbes” Slices Its Prey to Pieces
How will this US-Sino tech war end when both sides keep retaliating each other. Trump said that he would intervene on Huawei's case to help close trade deal, but that would come with a demand to favor the US.
The arrest of Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer and Daughter of the founder, Meng Wanzhou, at Canadian airport has stirred a lot of disputes between Chinese people and the US. The Chinese and even Chinese residents in Richmond Group said that the arrest was dirty. BBC said that Meng is the “hostage” of this US-Sino tech war.
Meanwhile, Yahoo Financial tries to assert the truth by indicating the suspicion time of the arrest which was on December 1, 2018, the exact same say the US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a private trade talk at G20 meeting, not to mention the time of the arrest in Canada was during Meng’s layover.
A Chinese court has banned the sale and import of most iPhone models after Qualcomm, an American microchip maker, claims that Apple violates two of its patents in the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X.
Trump said on Tuesday that he would intervene in the Justice Department’s case against Meng if it would serve national security interests or help close a trade deal with China.
“If I think it’s good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made – which is a very important thing – what’s good for national security – I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary,” Trump said.
Later in the day, Meng had been granted $7.5 million bail by the Canadian Court on Tuesday, December 11, 2018, under 24 hours surveillance and an electronic ankle tag.
However, just hours before the bail, BBC reported that Michael Kovrig, a Canadian ex-diplomat, was being detained in China, but no further details were given regarding the detention. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada is in direct contact with Chinese authorities concerning the case. He also said the case is being taken “very seriously“.
On the other hand, Forbes reports that Meng’s arrest sends the message that Huawei, and its Chinese Communist Party puppet masters, are playing a dangerous game, if they think they can win this high-stakes struggle by any means fair or foul.
Forbes also states that winning by any means has been a Huawei trademark for some time. While giving an example of the incident in Seattle that two Huawei engineers used a 2014 visit to T-Mobile’s labs in Seattle to steal information and even a piece of confidential T-Mobile equipment, a robot that simulated finger-taps to test cell phone performance. Not only did Huawei take unauthorized photos of the robot, but they also stole one of its fingers. In 2017 a Seattle jury decided that Huawei had misappropriated T-Mobile trade secrets and fined $4.8 million.
Aside from trade war, this seems to be not just about the competition of number one ranking of mobile phone between iPhone and Huawei, but a tech war between the US and China. As China has the resources, but still lack theof tiny bit of technology to step over the US, while the latter holds the technology, but is short on resources. But the war cannot go all out at once, hence the battles are being played out displays through mobile competition instead.