Secret government organisation vetting suppliers

China is speeding up plans to replace American and foreign technology,  by empowering a secretive government-backed organisation to vet and approve local suppliers in sensitive areas from cloud to semiconductors.

It is big, sunny, scary and we have Halo.

Almost half of Americans don't go outdoors to play any more according to a new report and you can bet that the internet revolution is to blame for this agoraphobia.

Comment: Hey, it's commerce and globalisation, guys

The Wall Street Journal has realised that American companies supply loads of tech to the People's Republic of China.

Chevy equals levy

In a move which must alarm rural American ISPs, federal commications commissioner Ajit Pai more or less told broadband companies they had to rip out anything Chinese and replace them.

Tit for Tat for Huawei arrest

Canada said 13 of its citizens had been detained in China since Huawei Technologies Co-Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested last month in Vancouver at the request of the United States.

Wasted its cash on wars when it should have spent it on infrastructure

Alibaba founder Jack Ma fired a shot at the United States in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

 
Alexander the Great would be proud

A riverside town in the Republic of Macedonia has developed a new industry manufacturing fake news which is so bad that only  Americans can believe it.

Europeans don’t want big screens, which is news to us

LG has decided that Europeans don’t want big screen phones and are not issuing the V20 in that region.

Not paying tax is the American way

The US government is furious that the EU is starting to get hacked off with US companies not paying tax.

Chinese PR makes it look evil again

Huawei has done a great job of convincing many that it is the underdog in the great spying row with the US and that it is really not a secretive outfit which is secretly spying on Western powers.