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- Gordon G. Chang: Huawei Wants the World's Next Trojan Horse to Be Chinese
- Sezen Şahin: Turkey, Azerbaijan Ban Chess Champion
by Gordon G. Chang • September 30, 2019 at 5:00 am
A refusal to grant a third waiver to Huawei, the world's largest telecom networking equipment manufacturer and second-largest smartphone maker, would be the right move for the United States. After all, why should President Trump allow our companies to help Beijing steal the world's data and remotely control devices connected to the internet?
On Tuesday, China's Communist Party will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its coming to power. This is not a happy time for the communists, however, as their economy, the primary basis of their legitimacy, is crumbling.
In addition, the thought of licensing technology from Huawei is nothing short of hideous. The Chinese company, founded in 1987, was built on stolen Cisco Systems technology, and from all indications has never stopped stealing. Why should we pay China for tech it criminally took — and is still taking — from us?
Unfortunately, these two companies [ZTE and Huawei] despite Trump's reprieves, have continued to engage in unacceptable behavior. ZTE has almost certainly violated its settlement agreement with the U.S, by installing Dell equipment in Venezuela, and Huawei is currently under investigation for additional instances of intellectual property theft. It is, therefore, time to impose "death sentences" on the pair of Chinese giants, in other words, cut both of them off from U.S. technology.
More fundamentally, why should we have any contact with Huawei? Trump's instincts are to cut off all dealings. "We are not going to do business with Huawei," the president said on August 9, "It's much simpler not doing any business with Huawei."
So, let's not do business with Huawei.
"For China, trade with the United States is viewed as a bonanza to acquire — steal — American technology and bilk our people out of hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. Any compromise with Beijing would, in the long-run, be to America's disadvantage." — Brandon Weichert, tech expert, publisher of The Weichert Report.
We did not win the Cold War by enriching the Soviet Union. We should not try to enrich China now.
China's Huawei Technologies, founded in 1987, was built on stolen Cisco Systems technology, and from all indications Huawei has never stopped stealing. Why should we pay China for technology it criminally took — and is still taking — from us? Pictured: Huawei's Bantian campus in Shenzhen, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Rob Strayer, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Cyber and International Communications Policy, told reporters in Brussels on September 26 that the Trump administration is unlikely to grant another 90-day blanket waiver for transactions with China's Huawei Technologies.
A 90-day waiver from Commerce Department prohibitions, the second granted, will expire November 19.
A refusal to grant a third waiver to the Chinese company, the world's largest telecom networking equipment manufacturer and second-largest smartphone maker, would be the right move for the United States. After all, why should President Trump allow our companies to help Beijing steal the world's data and remotely control devices connected to the internet?
by Sezen Şahin • September 30, 2019 at 4:00 am
The tournament that three-time Armenian chess champion, Maria Gevorgyan, was invited to attend -- and from which her invitation was subsequently withdrawn -- was the 2019 Sivas Buruciye Chess Open, which was held August 19-24.
In a letter of complaint to the Lausanne, Switzerland-based International Chess Federation (FIDE), MP Mkhitar Hayrapetyan... demanded that FIDE take action.... The investigation is still ongoing.
The solution to the persecution of Armenians in Turkey and Azerbaijan lies in the victory of critical thinking and human rights over dogma and political corruption in those countries.
For there to be a chance of this happening, however, Turkey and Azerbaijan should be governed not by dictatorships that spread hate-filled propaganda, but by people who participate in a true democracy with equal human rights for all.
The banning of three-time Armenian chess champion, Maria Gevorgyan, from an international tournament in Turkey -- due to pressure by the Azerbaijani delegation -- highlights the discrimination and persecution that Armenians continue suffer in Turkey and Azerbaijan. Pictured: Gevorgyan in 2014. (Image source: Chesspics/Wikimedia Commons)
The banning of three-time Armenian chess champion, Maria Gevorgyan, from an international tournament in Turkey -- due to pressure by the Azerbaijani delegation -- highlights the discrimination and persecution that Armenians continue suffer in Turkey and Azerbaijan.
The tournament that Gevorgyan was invited to attend -- and from which her invitation was subsequently withdrawn -- was the 2019 Sivas Buruciye Chess Open, which was held August 19-24.
In a recent interview with Gatestone, Gevorgyan recalled how she learned, ten days before the event, that she was no longer welcome to attend:
"While I was talking about the tickets and other arrangements with a Turkish organizer, he sent me a WhatsApp message informing me that he had been told by Azerbaijani players that they would not participate if an Armenian player was there. He then announced that my tickets and accommodation were being canceled."
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