The US threatened to impose 25% tariffs on cars to push Europeans to initiate proceedings against Iran for violating the nuclear deal, the German defense minister has confirmed.

Clearly trade war is ending, definitely.

Visual representation of why conflict can't be solved by agreements

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/chart-week-global-trade-through-us-china-lens

Trump Administration Considers Halting GE Venture's Engine Deliveries to China

The Trump administration is considering a proposal to halt deliveries of jet engines co-produced by General Electric Co. for a new airliner being developed in China, a potential escalation of protective trade measures that could have steep repercussions for the major American manufacturer.

The administration may decline to issue a license allowing CFM International, a joint venture of GE and France's Safran SA, to export more of its LEAP 1C jet engines to China, people familiar with the discussions said. The engines are being used in the development of that country's Comac C919 jetliner, the latest in a planned family of new jets that is years behind schedule.

People familiar with the deliberations said the primary purpose of the push to halt the engine shipments was to cripple the development of the Comac airliner, which China hopes to build into a global competitor of the dominant narrow-body airliner models made by Boeing Co. and Airbus SE. The LEAP 1C engine is the sole engine designed for use with the new Comac C919, so interrupting the supply of engines could produce an indefinite delay in the production of the C919.

Western politicians are just comics and prostitutes serving big business.

Nancy Pelosi: I’m so mad I didn’t impeach that Sonofabitch Donald Trump I can’t even talk straight! I’m doing this in an orange pant suit so Trump doesn’t put me in an orange jumpsuit, then chop my head off! It’s a Reign of Terror ...er or Drain the Swamp now in D.C. and he’s coming after everyone that went after him! That’s freedom and democracy! The Politics of personal destruction which I love! I’ve been hating China for 30 years now, whatever it takes to kill them, we will do. Even if it cuts off the main market for all our businesses and kills us!! Sometimes you have to chop off the head to save the foot or something….

Trade War/ Bio War

There's a lot more to this US battle with Huawei than cell phones. It has to do with warfare, Charles Lieber...and also Wuhan. Wuhan? Yes, Wuhan. But not in the way some Youtubers may think...

OK, people might wonder why I say the US military industrial complex and the neocons are freaking out about 5G and cell phones. It's more than just cell phones. The technology that China is working on will, in the view of the US DoD, change the nature of warfare forever. It's a big flipping deal. According to a White House Defense industry report, "Another concern are China’s advances in “foundational dual-use industries such as semiconductors, chip materials, robotics, aviation and satellites,” the report says. As technical innovation moves abroad, “changing rules around intellectual property development will impede U.S. access to the latest manufacturing technologies.” At risk is America’s loss of leadership in industries of the future such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and robotics, the report notes. “Over the remainder of this century, these emerging industries will help redefine the BATTLEFIELD.”

Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard's department of chemistry and member of the China's Thousand Talents Program. who was doing research with the Wuhan University of Technology didn't get unjustly arrested for nothing. They say he was covering up ties to China. How ridiculous! His name was probably listed on the Thousand Talents website. FBI doesn't have the internet, or what? For working with the Thousand Talents Program and developing nano-batteries and nano-tech. with the University of Technology in Wuhan (NOT the University of Virology as some have been saying on Youtube), which is the pilot city for the "Made in China 2025" The same initiative that the US Sec of Defense freaked out about to the Armed Services Committee. Oh that's funny.. Wuhan, did you say? I heard about something going on there recently in the news. Yes Wuhan.

In 2016, the Chinese designated Wuhan as the model city for the roll out of the digital Silk Road and AI and 5G and the Made in China2025 Initiative. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to give Wuhan all priority for all resources, projects and programs. This is a big threat to the US military-industrial complex. So Wuhan keeps coming up, doesn't it?

This is a technological arms race and the US is losing. So, they are resorting to a lot of dirty tricks. A lot of them. I'm not making connections. I'm saying the US was not happy about Wuhan.

http://www.wh-china.com/whxw/201612/t2931068.htm

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/21/c_136913339.htm

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/why-did-chinese-university-hire-charles-lieber-do-battery-research

Trump blasts proposed restrictions on selling U.S. jet parts to China

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted proposals that could hinder U.S. companies from supplying jet engines and other components to China's aviation industry and said he had instructed his administration to prevent such moves. The president's intervention illustrated, at least in this case, his desire to prioritize economic benefits over potential competitive pitfalls and national security concerns. It also contrasts with the sharp restrictions his administration has placed on U.S. companies trading with Huawei Technologies, the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker, citing national security reasons.

In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Trump said national security should not be used as an "excuse" to make it difficult for foreign countries to buy U.S. products. "The United States cannot, & will not, become such a difficult place to deal with in terms of foreign countries buying our product, including for the always used National Security excuse, that our companies will be forced to leave in order to remain competitive," Trump wrote on Twitter. "As an example, I want China to buy our jet engines, the best in the World," he added. Trump later said before departing to California that, "things have been put on my desk that have nothing to do with national security, including chipmakers."

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said it welcomed Trump's comments. “We applaud President Trump’s tweets supporting U.S. companies being able to sell products to China and opposing proposed regulations that would unduly curtail that ability," said John Neuffer, the group's president, in a statement. "As we have discussed with the administration, sales of non-sensitive, commercial products to China drive semiconductor research and innovation, which is critical to America’s economic strength and national security.”

Huawei is planning a response to a recent administrative move by the U.S. Department of Commerce that makes it impossible for foreign companies such as Taiwan's TSMC to serve it. Huawei's mobile SoC design house subsidiary, HiSilicon, is highly dependant on TSMC to contract manufacture its SoCs on the company's 7 nm (N7), and various 10 nm-class FinFET nodes. Huawei is preparing to port some of its SoC designs to a 14 nm node of China's state-owned Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) as contingency. Without access to 7 nm, Huawei's plans to lead the global 5G infrastructure market would hit severe roadblocks. The U.S. move has triggered a heated (and somewhat loaded) reprisal from Global Times, a newspaper that's regarded in diplomatic circles as a platform for hawkish unofficial messaging by the Chinese government.

More hits will come.

I think we are 1-2 months from open blame of coronavirus epidemic. US will blame China and will call it terrorist state, China will do same.

Samsung Electronics is planning to gradually lower its dependence on AWS (Amazon Web Service) and is looking to use its own cloud system because it believes that it is better for it to lower its dependence on AWS considering many factors such as cost and security.

Surprise, surprise.

Senior officials in the Trump administration agreed to new measures to restrict the global supply of chips to China’s Huawei Technologies, sources familiar with the matter said, as the White House ramps up criticism of China over coronavirus

Under the proposed rule change, foreign companies that use U.S. chipmaking equipment would be required to obtain a U.S. license before supplying certain chips to Huawei. The Chinese telecoms company was blacklisted last year, limiting the company’s suppliers.

One of the sources said the rule-change is aimed at curbing sales of chips to Huawei by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, a major producer of chips for Huawei’s HiSilicon unit, as well as the world’s largest contract maker.

The Chinese-backed owners of Imagination Technologies told the British government on Friday the chip designer would remain headquartered in the United Kingdom and they would consult over any board changes.

British lawmakers recently became concerned that Imagination Technologies, which supplies intellectual property in areas including graphics and video processing to groups like Apple (AAPL.O), could end up being moved out of the United Kingdom.

China will get all the info and will kill the firm, silently.

As it has not much other value.

Who’s decoupling from whom?

As US reevaluates its relationship with China, Asian giant's export data show increasing regional integration

China’s March export value rose 8.5% year on year, diverging widely from analyst forecasts which foresaw a 12% decline. Strong exports growth to Asia, and especially Southeast Asia, fed the unexpected improvement.

The March data denote a steady increase in Asian economic integration, in which a larger portion of Asian trade is directed towards Asia itself. While America contemplates decoupling from China, it seems that Asia is decoupling from the United States. Since the US-China tech war began in April 2018 with Washington’s ban on chip exports to China’s ZTE Corporation, “de-Americanization of supply chains” has been the buzzword in the semiconductor industry.

Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia purchased about 50% more Chinese products in April 2020 than they did in the year-earlier month. Japan and Korea showed 20% gains. Exports to the US rose year-on-year, but from a very low 2019 base.

A shift in supply chains away from the United States, though, probably accounts for some of the jump in Asian trade. Japan now ships more semiconductors to China than it does to the United States. As late as 2014, Japan sold three times as much semiconductors to the US than to China.

https://asiatimes.com/2020/05/whos-decoupling-from-whom/?fbclid=IwAR20rORtvi9_Bwpq8ZeD01y6Z--pfnwkCePkJxvciTD9vvLqIBaj2RQVgOk

If the US further pinches Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei by blocking companies such as TSMC from providing chips to the company, China will carry out countermeasures, such as including certain US companies into its list of "unreliable entities," imposing restrictions on or investigating US companies such as Qualcomm, Cisco and Apple, and suspending purchases of Boeing aircraft.

The environment for China's peaceful development has changed greatly. China's domestic and foreign policies must also adjust. US suppression has become the No.1 challenge to China's development. For quite a long time, we need to release our strength to destroy US bluster.

China must display its strategic demeanor as a major power. We need to set up the ability and mentality to tangle with the world, during which process China's historical culture can endow us with inspiration.

We must be clear that coping with US suppression will be the key focus of China's national strategy. We should enhance cooperation with most countries. The US is expected to contain China's international frontlines, and we must knock out this US plot and make China-US rivalry a process of US self-isolation.

The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei from global chipmakers. The US Commerce Department said it was amending an export rule and the Entity List to "strategically target Huawei's acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product of certain US software and technology," according to a statement on its website.

"China will take forceful countermeasures to protect its own legitimate rights," if the US moves forward with the plan to bar essential suppliers of chips, including Taiwan-based TSMC, from selling chips to the Chinese tech giant, the source told the Global Times in an exclusive interview.

The measures include adding related US companies to China's "unreliable entity list," imposing restrictions on or launching investigations into US companies like Qualcomm, Cisco and Apple according to Chinese laws and regulations like Cybersecurity Review Measures and Anti-monopoly Law, and suspending airplane purchases from Boeing, said the source.