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China is successfully using the Belt and Road Initiative to promote the adoption of Huawei 5G, while the United States is looking to reverse these gains.

Lauren Dudley is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. This is the second part of a series on Huawei’s expansion in Russia as a reaction to geopolitical technology tensions, preceded by the first part and followed by the third part. Some of the same geopolitical forces that have pitted the […]

Lauren Dudley is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. This is the first part of a series on Huawei’s expansion in Russia as a reaction to geopolitical technology tensions, followed by the second and third parts. Few, if any, other companies have been as affected by China’s ongoing geopolitical technology tensions as Huawei. […]

Connor Fairman is a research associate in the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. On August 17, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that non-U.S. companies were prohibited from selling items produced with U.S. technology to Huawei. The decision follows restrictions imposed by the Commerce Department in May against companies […]

Score one for the Trump administration. Months after announcing that it would allow Huawei to play a limited role in the country’s 5G networks, the United Kingdom has reversed course. The British government has now decided that buying new Huawei equipment will be banned after December 31, 2020; all existing Huawei equipment will be removed from […]

Perri Adams is a computer security researcher and cyber policy analyst based in Washington, DC. You can follow her @perribus. Dave Aitel works in the area of offensive cyber technologies and is based in Miami. You can follow him @daveaitel. Sophia d’Antoine is a veteran security enthusiast and the founder of Margin Research in New […]

Eric Fan is an intern for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. ZTE and Huawei have become household names. Their commonalities are easy to spot: expertise in telecommunications, ties to the Chinese government, and violations of American sanctions against Iran. Described as part of a “whole-of-society threat” from China, the two companies often […]

Executive Summary On December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by approving the sale of Nvidia H200 chips—the most powerful AI chip ever approved for export to China. That decision was driven in part by concerns that Huawei is becoming a viable competitor to Nvidia in AI chips, making U.S. export controls less effective. However, a comparison of publicly available data on AI chip performance from both companies, coupled with estimates on AI chip production capacity finds something different: Huawei is not a rising competitor. Instead, it is […]

There are more than enough reasons to keep Huawei equipment out of the core U.S. internet infrastructure. Many analysts remain skeptical about the U.S. charges against Huawei as the U.S. government has not laid out the risks clearly, has released little if any information to justify the charges, and has seemingly backtracked depending on trade […]

Between the chips needed for its networking equipment and the chips needed for its smartphones, Huawei accounts for a significant share of global semiconductor demand under normal conditions. CSLA’s Sebastian Hou puts that number at “8 to 9% of global semiconductor demand, without the inventory buildup”. That’s significant. The United States makes—as opposed to designs—just over 10 […]

Introduction One of the world’s leading providers of fifth-generation (5G) mobile technology, Huawei is a Chinese telecommunications giant that has stoked fears of espionage and intellectual property theft in the United States and many other countries. In response, Washington and its allies have imposed sweeping restrictions on Huawei as part of a larger crackdown on […]

Show Notes U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro meet at the White House, and Huawei divides the United States and Germany.

The big story between the United States and China right now was supposed to be the critical round of trade talks taking place in Washington, as negotiators race against a March 2 deadline for the Trump administration to further increase tariffs on Chinese imports. Instead, on the eve of the negotiations the Justice Department on […]

2018 was the year that started the U.S.-China tech cold war. 2019 might be the year that splinters the global technology system into distinct spheres of influence.

Most of the attention generated by the report by Chairman Mike Rogers and Ranking Member C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger of the House Select Committee on Intelligence (HSCI) has focused on the issues of trade, trust, and Huawei’s and ZTE’s future access to the U.S. market. The report, however, should also be seen as another step […]

A new report about Huawei’s connections to the Chinese military and intelligence agencies will make it even more unlikely that the telecomm company will ever be approved for a major acquistition in the United States (it should be noted that Huawei already supplies many smaller companies throughout the United States). Actually, given all the previous […]

In the past decade, China’s government has stepped up its efforts to wield powerful tools of information around the globe—in its near neighborhood and, increasingly in farther places …

The Netherlands will sign on to U.S. microchip controls The Netherlands will sign on to U.S. microchip controls first enacted in October 2022, according to a report from …

… Wales police use of facial recognition technology breached privacy and human rights protections. India Excludes <em>Huawei</em> and ZTE from 5G Trials On Tuesday, the Indian government released a list of …

Data of 1.3 Million Clubhouse Users Leaked Online Days after the personal information of 533 million Facebook users and 500 million LinkedIn users were scraped from their respective platforms …