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Biden’s in no rush to engage China. Guess who’s trying to take advantage.
The new administration says it’s playing a long game with Beijing. Critics say it’s just getting played.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with then Vice President Joe Biden in Beijing in 2013. | Lintao Zhang, Pool, File/AP
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President Joe Biden so far has held calls with about a dozen world leaders, from the president of France to Vladimir Putin, Russia’s strongman. But the head of the world’s No. 2 economy and America’s chief geopolitical rival? Nope.
It’s not that Biden has nothing to say to Xi Jinping, the iron-fisted head of China’s communist system. Quite the opposite America has a long list of grievances to air, from Beijing’s crushing of democracy in Hong Kong to its underhanded trade practices. But Biden aides are taking their time and lowering the rhetorical temperature while touching base with U.S.-allied nations and taking stock of the p
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Blackburn Introduces Amendments to Counter China and Iran
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Feb. 3 introduced a number of amendments in opposition to the Democrat budget agenda focused on restricting certain activities of China and Iran.
This occurred while senators continue to debate on the 2021 budget resolution using the budget “reconciliation” process, which allows congressional Democrats to pass tax and spending bills by a simple majority vote.
Blackburn said her amendments “counteract the liberal agenda that is putting our nation on the wrong path.”
In a lengthy list of amendments, Blackburn called for a deficit-neutral reserve fund related to “preventing the support or implementation of the civil-military fusion strategy of the communist party of China.”
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It Turns Out Huawei’s HarmonyOS Is Still Just Android By Ryan Whitwam on February 4, 2021 at 7:05 am
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Huawei only got to enjoy a few months at the top of the smartphone heap before the US government knocked it down a peg. Following the Commerce Department’s actions against the Chinese megafirm, Huawei has been unable to use Google services on its new phones. The company’s solution was to develop HarmonyOS, a new operating system that would replace Android, according to Huawei. Now that we’ve gotten our first real look at HarmonyOS, one thing is clear: this is just Android with a skin.
Leading House Republicans are calling for a hold on the Biden administration’s nominee to lead the Commerce Department, citing her refusal to commit to keeping Chinese telecom giant Huawei on the U.S. Entity List as a result of its global spy operations.