U.S. Takes Huawei Fight Directly to Telecom Industry

American officials inserted themselves into the telecom industry’s biggest trade fair to slam Huawei Technologies Co.—one of the event’s main sponsors—as “duplicitous and deceitful” and to warn other governments they won’t be able to use U.S. aid to buy the Chinese company’s gear. The Trump administration sent a large delegation of senior officials from the…

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In 5G Race With China, U.S. Pushes Allies to Fight Huawei

Jeremy Hunt, the British foreign minister, arrived in Washington last week for a whirlwind of meetings facing a critical question: Should Britain risk its relationship with Beijing and agree to the Trump administration’s request to ban Huawei, China’s leading telecommunications producer, from building its next-generation computer and phone networks?

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The FTC Goes After Qualcomm

While the U.S. government is pulling out all the stops to undermine Huawei’s drive to dominate the 5G future, its own Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is pursuing litigation which, if successful, would seriously damage the only major U.S. competitor to that Chinese company: Qualcomm. Given the importance of the 5G rollout to both national security…

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White House Launches Tool To Combat Social Media Free Speech Violations

Conservative censorship and shadow-banning on social platforms are nothing new these days; however, the White House is acting. The White House launched a tool that could be used by people wrongly censored, banned or suspended by social platforms. “Too many Americans have seen their accounts suspended, banned, or fraudulently reported for unclear ‘violations’ of user…

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New ICE Program Will Work Around Insufferable Sanctuary Cities

After certain state and local rules prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from doing their jobs, the law enforcement agency established a program allowing local law enforcement to arrest dangerous illegal immigrants in those jurisdictions. Under this program, law enforcement will be exempted from sanctuary city and state rules preventing them from cooperating with ICE and executing arrests. The…

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