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Media Report
May 20 , 2019
  • The New York Times reports, "China has spent nearly two decades building a digital wall between itself and the rest of the world, a one-way barrier designed to keep out foreign 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. Google on Monday began to limit the software services it provides to Huawei, the telecommunications giant, following a White House order last week that restricted the Chinese company's access to American technology. Google's software powers Huawei's smartphones, and its apps come preloaded on the devices Huawei sells around the world. Depending on how the White House's order is implemented, that could come to a stop. For Huawei, the big impact will be abroad, since Chinese customers already have limited access to Google's services. Google's move will have its biggest effect in places like Europe where it has emerged as a big smartphone seller. Other companies will inevitably follow. In effect, the move puts pressure on Huawei's international expansion dreams."

  • Reuters reports, "The U.S. military said one of its warships sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea on Sunday, angering Beijing at a time of tense ties between the world's two biggest economies. The busy waterway is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which include a trade war, U.S. sanctions and Taiwan. China struck a more aggressive tone in its trade war with the United States on Friday. The tough talk capped a week that saw China unveil new retaliatory tariffs in response to a U.S. decision to raise its levies on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25% from 10%. The U.S. destroyer Preble carried out the operation, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters. 'Preble sailed within 12 nautical miles of Scarborough Reef in order to challenge excessive maritime claims and preserve access to the waterways as governed by international law,' said Commander Clay Doss, a spokesman for the Seventh Fleet." 
  • CNN reports, "Taiwan has lashed out at China's state media for attempting to take credit for the island's historic decision to legalize same-sex marriage. On Friday, Taiwan's legislators passed a bill making same-sex marriage a reality, the first place in Asia to give LGBT couples many of the same rights as their heterosexual peers. LGBT activists were overjoyed at the news, but some of the most unlikely praise came from the Chinese Communist Party's mouthpiece. 'Local lawmakers in Taiwan, China, have legalized same-sex marriage in a first for Asia,' tweeted the People's Daily newspaper on Friday, along with a rainbow color-infused animated image that says 'love is love' underneath. 'Wrong!' Joseph Wu, Taiwan's foreign minister, shot back on his department's official Twitter account Sunday. 'The bill was passed by our national parliament and will be signed by the president soon. Democratic Taiwan is a country in itself and has nothing to do with authoritarian China.'"
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