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Trump reversed course on Huawei. What happens now?
Six weeks after Huawei was blacklisted by the US government, President Donald Trump had what the Chinese telecom firm described as a "U-turn." Trump said Saturday that "US companies can sell their equipment to Huawei," allowing the transactions won't present a "great, national emergency problem."
Trump's comments at the G20 in Japan came after a widely anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jingping. The two sides met to discuss the impasse in the trade dispute, and Huawei, one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world, has become a flash point in the battle.
In May, the US Commerce Department banned sales of American-made goods to Huawei without first obtaining a license. US officials have accused the company of working to undermine US national security and foreign policy interests. Trump said Huawei was still part of the ongoing trade discussions between Washington and Beijing, but for now, he would move to resume allowing US companies to sell parts to the Chinese firm.
Also at Android Authority and Business Insider:
President Trump has said US firms can continue selling to Huawei, apparently contradicting a Commerce Department trade blacklist on the Chinese tech firm.
See also: A China-U.S. Trade Truce Could Enshrine a Global Economic Shift
Previously: New Law Bans U.S. Government from Buying Equipment from Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei
Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android
Google Pulls Huawei's Android License
The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google's Iron Grip On Android
Huawei Calls on U.S. to Adjust its Approach to Tackle Cybersecurity Effectively
Google Doesn't Want Huawei Ban Because It Would Result in an Android Competitor
Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810
Related: U.S. Reaches Deal to Keep China's ZTE in Business: Congressional Aide
US Hits China's ZTE with $1 Billion Penalty
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 01 2019, @03:10AM (10 children)
Waffles for breakfast, waffles for lunch, waffles for dinner coated in cheeto dust.
But, when you control the press, you can play up the side of the waffle that makes you look good to the people who like it, and hide the bad side from them - because the majority of people don't really pay attention or have memories good enough to pick up on these changes in policy.
2020 has the potential to be soooo depressingly disappointing.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 01 2019, @04:03AM (9 children)
This isn't about the press. It's more of a hostage situation and he has to read a "manifesto" on the air. It's totally bizarre the way he talks about these people in ways that nobody normally would.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 01 2019, @02:21PM (8 children)
Remember: he had a totally bizarre life starting from birth, the way he talks to/about all people is calculated and influenced in ways that nobody normal ever would be. He didn't come up as a lizard-person-politician learning skills of how to relate to the common voter, he didn't come up as a manager or influencer of ordinary people, he didn't succeed is businesses that appeal to the majority of people, he's basically just a trust-fund-baby-freak who's lived his whole life with a highly distorted perspective as compared to, say, people who spent at least a few years in mainstream schools and jobs.
This was all on-the-table in November of 2016, and somehow it didn't bother 49% of the popular vote enough to stop them from filling in the bubble by his name.
In the words of the late-great George Carlin: think of somebody you know with a 100 I.Q. - now, realize that fully half of the world is dumber than that!
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 01 2019, @03:09PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 01 2019, @03:43PM
While I don't disagree, at least HC was/is run-of-the-mill grade D policrat dog food.
What we got came out the other end of the dog, in terms of leadership quality.
As pointless as it was, I wrote-in Bernie on my ballot, because I could not in good conscious vote for either.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 01 2019, @04:49PM (5 children)
Well, yes, his extremely weak character is the other explanation for this behavior. Up until his election he has never encountered people of real strength. He reacts like a puppy dog running to keep up.
Oh well, this is the low class of people that win these days. Pretty bad reflection on the majority of people who vote.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 01 2019, @04:59PM (4 children)
Populist leaders appeal to the masses by projecting a convincing "I am one of you" image.
Sadly, this time it wasn't just a reassuring image, he actually is as dumb as most of the voters.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 01 2019, @05:33PM (3 children)
So, what is to be done about majority rule? Will it correct itself? Or does it always end this way?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 01 2019, @06:41PM (2 children)
Nothing, because we don't have majority rule. We have the Electoral College which approximates the majority of the voting population winning the race, but with less than 50% of the popular votes cast carrying the election several times recently, less than 30% of eligible voters voting... it doesn't feel like majority rule to me.
We can hope so, future is uncertain, ask again later.
It is tempting to quote BSG "all of this has happened before, and will happen again..." but, I don't believe in pre-destined outcomes. We can always screw things up worse, and maybe there's a slim chance we can improve a little, too.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 01 2019, @08:07PM (1 child)
it doesn't feel like majority rule to me.
The options are wide open. The only problem is the voters. People have to speak up if they think the system is "rigged". If they don't, oh well... This is the result. There's no one else to run to. Either people take their own initiative, or they don't.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 01 2019, @08:21PM
The problem, as I see it, is that both "sides" are jockeying for maximal power, and they get that by minimizing their majority - the more people you piss off the more power you have (or are exercising), so each side aims to piss off about 49%, and we don't have anything resembling real choice at the ballot box, just two barely differentiated and 49% distasteful choices. That's where it's rigged: no worthwhile candidates make it to the upper levels.
I still like the Arthur C. Clarke approach to government: the draft. I'd make a variation of it where all adults who have taken the basic educational requirements for office, and placed in the upper 1/3 of their classes in ALL important categories, are thrown in a pool and selected at random to serve for terms roughly equivalent to the average terms served by our current representatives. Congressional terms are only 2 years, but most serve multiples, so make the period of service more like 5 years, with a new batch of inductees/retirees every 6 months so that at least 90% of the government has some experience at what they are doing at all times. The key element put forward by Clarke was: anybody actively seeking public office should be immediately/automatically barred from serving.
Whether election or draft, I do believe we need more transparency, and I would be fully in favor of doubling the current size of our government for the singular purpose of installing neutral auditors who do nothing but observe, report, and bring to light any and all malfeasance or the appearance thereof...
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