{"id":44448,"date":"2019-03-13T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44448"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:30:45","slug":"empire-unravelling-will-huawei-become-washingtons-suez%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44448","title":{"rendered":"Empire Unravelling: Will Huawei Become Washington\u2019s Suez?\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/03\/13\/empire-unravelling-will-huawei-become-washingtons-suez\/\">Empire Unravelling: Will Huawei Become Washington\u2019s Suez?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/2044DE57-6939-46A8-97D6-2B1B8475B3C0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109988\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photograph Source Br\u00fccke-Osteuropa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">America\u2019s full-spectrum campaign against Chinese tech leader Huawei is coming spectacularly undone. Curtains are imminent for Washington\u2019s tawdriest global offensive in recent memory \u2013 featuring open extortion, kidnapping, demonization and intimidation of both friends and foes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The signs were apparent as early as two months ago, when many governments worldwide lukewarmly greeted US calls for a boycott of Huawei\u2019s products and services. But explicit refusals in the past week by staunch American allies Germany, Britain and New Zealand, as well as NATO member Turkey, have all but sealed the deal. After all, hardly any country outside the US-dominated Empire is signing on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even 61% of CNN viewers thought the crackdown was motivated by politics, against 24% who believe Washington\u2019s line on \u201cprotecting national security.\u201d All that apparently persuaded POTUS Trump to tweet about winning the tech race with China \u201cthrough competition, not by blocking out currently more advanced technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington\u2019s stunning defeat stems from US leaders\u2019 hidebound hubris, their utter inability to conceive of a world in which their country was no longer No. 1 in everything significant. Such navel-gazing put them to sleep, oblivious that history has marched past them in the form of China\u2019s Huawei Technologies. The simple fact is \u2013 as Huawei boss Ren Zhengfei has been saying \u2013 the Chinese firm is far ahead of everyone else in the development of 5G. Any nation that doesn\u2019t want to be left behind rolling out the game-changing, next-generation communications technology has little choice but to do business with Huawei. Moreover, without fanfare the company has taken a leading role in shaping the very rules of 5G, on a global basis. Like China itself, Huawei simply cannot be contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empire Unravelling: Will Huawei Become Washington\u2019s Suez? Photograph Source Br\u00fccke-Osteuropa America\u2019s full-spectrum campaign against Chinese tech leader Huawei is coming spectacularly undone. Curtains are imminent for Washington\u2019s tawdriest global offensive in recent memory \u2013 featuring open extortion, kidnapping, demonization and intimidation of both friends and foes. 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