As the Trump administration seeks to banish the Chinese telecom Huawei from U.S. markets, China has a potent possible weapons to strike back: control of the supply of rare-earth minerals, crucial to the manufacture of oil refining, ear buds, wind turbines, and electric cars. According to Ryan Castilloux, a strategic metals consultant quoted in Foreign...
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The Power Politics Behind the Blacklisting of Huawei
The rise of surveillance capitalism in the 21st century has been very good for the world’s intelligence agencies, and vice versa. Maybe too good. Google has become an indispensable partner of the National Security Agency. The CIA has “relied exclusively” on Amazon for a $600 million cloud computing system. Israel’s intelligence services have birthed a...