U.S. demands deep structural reforms such as stopping forced technology transfers, enforcing intellectual property rights and ending state subsidies for strategic industries.

Exactly 0% of this points had been mentioned or agreed upon

Each side gave its own readout of the outcome, and they contained key differences: China, for instance, made no mention of the 90-day time frame, while the U.S. didn’t reference the One-China policy regarding Taiwan ties.

This thing will fall long before 90 days, just give it small reason.

Canadian authorities have arrested Wanzhou Meng, the CFO of Huawei Technologies and daughter of the telecom giant's founder, Ren Zhengfei. An ex-officer with the People's Liberation Army, Ren is one of the country's most revered business figures. Wanzhou is facing extradition to the US on suspicions that she violated US sanctions against Iran.

Always rely on materialism - good personal relations never can save objective interests difference.

@jleo

It is just illustration of how real world works. If you have fundamental difference in economic interests - you will have rise of confrontation. If not superior US army it had been much worse now.

Game of Phones :) , :(

THE HUAWEI KIDNAPPING: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE?

Thomas Hon Wing Polin ( former senior editor Asiaweek)

There may be a lot more than meets the eye in Canada’s shock arrest, at US behest, of Huawei’s CFO and heir apparent Meng Wanzhou

Chinese sources have assembled the following facts:

• April 2017: A director of Chinese tech giant Huawei personally escorts famed Shanghai-born physicist Zhang Shoucheng from the latter’s hotel in Shenzhen. Jackson & Wood Professor of Physics at Stanford University, Zhang was in town to attend an IT summit.

• Sept. 2018: Prof. Zhang receives a European physics award, one of his many honors. His work in quantum physics is expected to revolutionize the global semiconductor industry. Yang Zhenning, the first Chinese scientist to receive the Nobel Physics Prize (1957), had predicted that Zhang would be the next one.

• Dec. 1, 2018: Prof. Zhang and Meng Wanzhou are expected to attend a dinner in Argentina, where the G20 summit is being held.

• Dec. 1, 2018: On her way there, Meng is arrested in transit by the Canadian government.

• Dec. 1, 2018: Prof. Zhang falls to his death from a building in the US, allegedly a suicide. Said to be suffering from depression, he was 55.

• Dec. 1, 2018: A nighttime fire breaks out at a factory of Holland’s ASML, the world’s leading manufacturer of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology. EUV is crucial to the production of the next generation of semi-conductors, which US and Chinese tech firms as well as Korea’s Samsung are competing to be first to bring to market. Leading Chinese semiconductor producer SMIC is known to have ordered EUV technology worth US$120 million from ASML, for scheduled delivery early in 2019. After the fire, ASML announced that it expected delays in shipments of its products, notably early 2019.

From the news archive:

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, headed for Beijing. It never arrived. All 227 passengers and 12 crew are presumed dead after radar data showed the Boeing 777's last recorded position over a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean.

Employees of several Asia Pacific-based communications service providers and vendors were aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at the time of its disappearance, including Huawei, competitor ZTE, U.S. company Freescale Semiconductor, and reportedly, China Telecom.

Two executives from Huawei, an employee of ZTE, and 20 employees of Freescale were on board the flight, their respective companies confirmed on Saturday.

https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/freescale-huawei-zte-employees-among-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-passengers

Reuters reported officials from major U.S. companies at a meeting in Singapore on Thursday "voiced concerns about retaliation against American firms and their executives." Several attendees said their companies were considering restricting travel to China and looking to move meetings outside the country.

Now need to decide who will go to prison in China soon.

I vote for Tim Cook, as for both sides it'll be amazing solution. And will be good for Apple.

Stephen Roach Former Morgan Stanley Asia Chair : Accusations against China IP Theft. Forced Technology transfer and hacking : based on vague anecdotal evidence, lacking scientific metrics

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/05/24/americas-weak-case-against-china-on-trade/

‘Little to nothing’ so far to substantiate security risks posed by Huawei: Analysts

Mr Claus Mortensen, principal analyst at research firm Ecosystm, told Channel NewsAsia on Friday (Dec 7) that the heightened regulatory scrutiny is, at its core, a “highly politicised issue”. He said the national security argument is a “valid” one, and few countries in the Western world would choose to buy important communications infrastructure from countries like China or Russia. “That said, there is so far little to nothing to substantiate these security claims,” Mr Mortensen pointed out.

He referenced another instance when Bloomberg ran a story in October claiming that China had inserted rogue chips into servers used by US companies like Apple and Amazon – which did not implicate Huawei but fed the narrative of Chinese tech companies serving as an extended arm of its government. “No actual proof has been presented (in the Bloomberg claim) and the same goes for Huawei’s equipment,” Mr Mortensen said.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/technology/huawei-little-to-substantiate-security-risks-analysts-11010544

Washington Post reported that the Trump administration is preparing to condemn Beijing for what it says are China’s continued efforts to steal America’s trade secrets and advanced technologies and compromise sensitive government and corporate computers,

Surprise.

China is retaliating right now, and the lady was let out of prison. With a GPS (maybe from Huawei?).

@jleo

Wait, wait, what about Principle Of The Separation Of Powers?

Also whole sentence reads like blackmail.

In the middle of the trade war, guess where Boeing’s opening its first overseas plant

America’s biggest exporter now has its first overseas plant.

Aviation and aerospace giant Boeing will officially inaugurate a completion and delivery center for its 737 planes in the eastern Chinese port city of Zhoushan on Saturday (Dec. 15). The plant, about 90 miles from Shanghai, is a joint-venture between Boeing and China’s state-run Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC). Planes destined to be delivered to Chinese carriers will arrive at the plant to have their interior and exterior painting and other finishing work done. China is a major Boeing 737 client—it has ordered more than 160 737 Max’s across 12 carriers since 2013. This may not seem ideal timing to open a plant in China, given the current US president’s hatred of offshoring, and the retaliatory rounds of tariffs between the two countries (they’re now trying to work out a compromise). During the campaign, Donald Trump criticized Boeing’s plan for a China plant, saying it would take lots of jobs away from US.

https://qz.com/1495831/boeings-first-overseas-plant-will-be-in-china/

Boeing aims eventually to hit a delivery target of 100 planes a year at Zhoushan, although Bruns deflected a question on how quickly it would reach that level and said Boeing had no plans to expand work to other aircraft types.

Boeing also hopes the plant will relieve pressure at the Seattle-area facility where it plans to boost production next year of its best-selling 737 narrow body aircraft but has struggled with production delays.

Read more at: //economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/67103653.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Several western government officials reportedly told WaPo that the Trump administration and more than a dozen of its allies are expected to condemn Beijing on Thursday over the MSS's campaign to steal other countries' trade secrets and advanced technologies, as well as its efforts to compromise sensitive government and corporate computer networks.

After the gesture of contempt, sanctions related to China's cyberespionage efforts are expected to be announced

Expect fun Christmas.

Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has proposed a Europe-wide pact of sovereignty oriented forces against the liberal Franco-German axis within the EU during his recent visit to Poland. The governmental alliance between the left-wing populist Five-Star Movement and the right-wing Lega Nord in Rome could serve as a model.

And it is not CHina only. As response to

France and Germany are to forge shared defense, foreign and economic policies in an unprecedented “twinning” pact regarded as a prototype for the future of the European Union.

@nomad

From one side it is pseudo left aka populists.

And national socialists are not some mix of socialists and nationalists :-) Whole term had been specially made, like Carlin would say "marketing decision".