The Upcoming Tech World War
“The case of Huawei is one of the manifestations of the United States using its power to push China back.” Pascal Lamy, former World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General (2005-2013), doesn’t sweeten words when asked about last December’s arrest of Huawei Vice President Meng Wanzhou in Canada at the request of the US. “It reflects the rivalry between the two countries. Technology is the new front of competition, because we all know that a large part of future growth will come from innovation and research. But we can compete trying to reach a win-win game or we can do what Donald Trump is doing, which is trying to damage China.”
Since Meng’s arrest, Huawei has been at the centre of the harshest diplomatic and trade row between the world’s two most powerful nations. The US believes the Chinese executive is the mastermind of an elaborate fraud designed to dodge sanctions imposed on Iran. According to US regulations, no American technology can be sold to the few countries on Washington’s black list, but a federal court accused Meng of creating an intricate web of ghost companies to do business with Iran.
Whether true or not, Lamy
