companies like Facebook and Google while
allowing Chinese rivals to leave home and
expand across the world. Now President Trump
is sealing up that wall from the other side.”
In response to the White House order limiting
Huawei’s access to American technology,
Google has confirmed that it will restrict the
software services it provides to the Chinese
telecommunications giant. The Trump
administration cited national security concerns
in justifying its decision, while Huawei – for
its part – has denied that it spies for the
Chinese government.
The executive order was issued after this
month’s collapse of trade talks between the
U.S. and China, but views differ in terms of the
reasonableness of the move. While, as Yuan has
noted, many people in China have seen the
Americans’ recent decisions as “a naked ploy to
stop a rising Chinese competitor”, others have
pointed to the barriers that China has long
imposed against competitors from overseas,