Huawei to stop making high-end Kirin 9000 smartphone chips due to U.S. sanctions
Chinese telecom giant Huawei said production of its most advanced smartphone chips would stop in September due to U.S. sanctions, causing a "huge loss". Huawei — the world's biggest producer of telecoms networking equipment — has become a pivotal issue in the geopolitical standoff between ...
China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following a sharp downturn in ties over the arrest of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei. Ye Jianhui was sentenced Friday by the Foshan Municipal Intermediate Court ...
Global prospects dim for China's tech champions as great powers clash
China's top tech players are having contracts canceled, products banned and investments blocked, with more restrictions on the horizon.
China says U.S. ordered closure of Houston consulate in dramatic escalation of diplomatic row
The United States has ordered China to close its Houston Consulate, Beijing said Wednesday, marking a dramatic escalation in diplomatic tensions between the feuding superpowers. The U.S. State Department confirmed the closure later, saying it was to protect Americans' intellectual property and private information. "We have ...
U.K. fight with China gets ugly over Hong Kong extradition pact
If the U.K. suspends its extradition treaty with Hong Kong, it would mark a further escalation in a fray already strained by the 5G exclusion of Huawei Technologies Co.
Ericsson, Nokia say ready to step in after U.K. bans Huawei 5G
As the U.K. pivots away from the Chinese telecom giant, competitors, including Japan's NEC Corp., stand to benefit.
Huawei faces ban from U.K. 5G networks by 2027 in crackdown plan
The U.K. is poised to ban Huawei Technologies Co. from its next generation mobile networks under a two-step plan designed to protect critical communication systems from potential security threats, a person familiar with the matter said. Under the blueprint, British phone companies will not be ...
A shot at hostage diplomacy with China backfires in Canada
The letter circulated by Huawei Technologies Co. was blunt. Canada was becoming dangerously entangled in the diplomatic feud between Washington and Beijing, it said, and there was only one answer: for Justin Trudeau’s government to free the state-championed tech giant’s chief financial officer and ...
576 days in a Chinese cell: Michael Kovrig's resolve pushed to its limits
In one of Michael Kovrig’s letters, the former Canadian diplomat describes life in a Chinese prison as a "gray, grinding monotony.” Confined to a windowless concrete cell, ten feet square, his incarceration has also been, at times, deeply traumatic. It’s taken all his strength not ...
Canada warns citizens new H.K. law poses risk of 'arbitrary detention'
Canada warned its citizens in Hong Kong on Wednesday that they faced a higher risk of arbitrary detention and extradition to mainland China after Beijing imposed a new security law on the city. The warning illustrates Western governments' heightened concern for citizens under the new ...
Huawei controversy opens field for 5G challengers, including Japan's NEC
Washington has pushed allies to bar Huawei from building next-generation 5G mobile networks, claiming its equipment can be used to spy for Beijing.
China denounces Canada's 'Megaphone Diplomacy' over spy charges
China sharply criticized Canada on Saturday, blaming its leaders for "irresponsible" statements about two Canadians accused of spying in China and calling on Ottawa to end its "Megaphone Diplomacy." The evidence against the two Canadians, former Beijing diplomat Michael Kovrig and North Korea consultant Michael ...
