Here on The Duran, we are blessed to be able to run news and opinion pieces with widely divergent points of view. For example, this piece submitted by InfoBrics, written by Lucas Leiroz from Rio de Janiero, proposes that the possibility that COVID-19 got its start in the US, and was planted in China as a weapon to assure a US victory in the trade war being waged with China.
The recent phone row between Trump and Boris Johnson has brought up two very contentious issues – the US refusing to extradite CIA wife Ann Sacoolas for killing British teenager Harry Dunn whilst driving on the wrong side of the road, and Boris defying Trump and US hawks by allowing China firm Huawei to provide telecoms equipment for the UK’s 5G roll-out. Are these deal breakers for the US and Britain’s legendary ‘special relationship’? What does all this have to do with the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance?
Huge intelligence failure has compounded Pentagon’s flip-flop policy and led to key allies refusing to heed Trump’s plea to avoid tech giant’s 5G system
David P. GOLDMAN
Humiliated by the United Kingdom’s refusal to exclude Huawei from its 5G broadband network, the Trump Administration has doubled down on its attempts to stop China, with poor prospects for success.
RT | February 15, 2020 Beijing has issued a scathing rebuke of Mike Pompeo’s claim that China is involved in covert activities as part of its desire to obtain greater power, noting that the allegation might be true – if he were referring to Washington. “All these accusations against China are lies, not based on […]
Yesterday, Boris Johnson cancelled plans for a scheduled spring visit to the White House following a heated telephone exchange with Donald Trump, with issues becoming so contentious it led the US President to hang up the phone on the British Prime Minister.
Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Johanna Ross, journalist based in Edinburgh, Scotland…
The UK security council met on Tuesday to discuss whether or not to exclude Huawei from providing Britain’s 5G networks, which are to be rolled out gradually by 2022. The outcome? A compromise: Huawei is to have a limited role, allowed to account for 35% of the equipment in a network’s periphery, which includes radio masts. In addition it will be banned from sensitive areas such as military bases and nuclear sites.
David P. GOLDMAN
The Commerce Department has abandoned long-expected rules to tighten controls on US firms’ exports to Huawei, China’s national champion in broadband technology and the world leader in 5G Internet equipment. The Wall Street Journal this morning reported that the Defense Department blocked a long-signaled change in export rules that would forbid US companies from selling components to Huawei from foreign subsidiaries if 10% of the content is derived from US technology. The Treasury Department reportedly backed the Pentagon’s objections.
December 26, 2019 (Gunnar Ulson - NEO) - By establishing facilities in Europe to produce components, Chinese telecom giant Huawei is continuing the process of circumventing US sanctions amid a wider US-led trade war aimed at artificially quelling the growing trend of foreign companies outcompeting long-entrenched US monopolies.
Jeffrey D SACHS
The worst foreign-policy decision by the United States of the last generation – and perhaps longer – was the “war of choice” that it launched in Iraq in 2003 for the stated purpose of eliminating weapons of mass destruction that did not, in fact, exist. Understanding the illogic behind that disastrous decision has never been more relevant, because it is being used to justify a similarly misguided US policy today.
Trump urged to take radical action to ensure the US doesn’t fall further behind
David P. GOLDMAN
