US, Taiwan launch trade talks in challenge to China
• 3 years agoTaiwan is the 10th largest export market for the United States as well as a vital source of semiconductors which are seeing a global shortage, hitting industries that rely on them from autos to smartphones and pushing inflation higher
Why Joe Biden’s virtual summit with Xi Jinping may be America’s 'Chamberlain moment'
Utpal Kumar • 3 years agoThe proposed talks are nothing but eyewash. The die has already been cast. Ironically, even without the majority of Americans knowing about it
US 'looking at' banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, says Mike Pompeo
• 5 years agoUS lawmakers raised security concerns over TikTok's handling of user data, saying they were worried about Chinese laws requiring domestic companies 'to cooperate with intelligence work controlled by Communist Party.'
US-China trade war: WTO says American tariffs on Beijing in 2018 broke global trade rules
• 5 years agoThe Donald Trump administration has continued to play an active role in the World Trade Organisation, but many of Trump’s biggest trade offensives over the past three years have bypassed the organisation’s rules
Huawei says, starting 2021, its smartphones will run HarmonyOS instead of Android
Tech2 News Staff • 5 years agoThe source code for HarmonyOS will be made available beginning in December to software developers.
Repositioning global supply chains out of China will not be easy; Beijing will enjoy an advantage even post-coronavirus
Parthu Venkatesh • 5 years agoChina has been the factory of the world for 30 long years, with its determined economic growth and stability. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, anti-Chinese rhetoric has been fomented in a number countries and some — like the US and Japan — are vehemently trying to relocate their supply chains elsewhere
Rupee falls 14 paise to close at 75.80 on concerns over US-China trade tiff, second wave of coronavirus infection
• 5 years agoThe rupee depreciated by 14 paise to 75.80 (provisional) against the US dollar on Wednesday as headwinds due to US-China trade tiff and worries over the second wave of coronavirus infection weighed on investor sentiment
Boeing cuts 787 Dreamliner production after second straight quarter of losses; may resume 737 MAX production at low rates in 2020
• 5 years agoDemand for Boeing’s bigger and more profitable 787 jet had waned as a result of the US-China trade war.
Huawei reportedly says that most of its phones will get Google's contact-tracing update
Tech2 News Staff • 5 years agoSmartphones including Huawei's will also need to have Bluetooth Low Energy to run Google-Apple's upcoming contact tracing tool.
Evidence of coronavirus' effect on US economy grows more ominous, will shrink 7% in 2020, predict economists
• 5 years agoRetail sales—a primary driver of the US economy—are almost surely suffering further during April because business shutdowns will have been in effect for the entire month, compared with just half of March