Huawei, TikTok, WeChat, to which is now added the threat of seizure of Chinese financial assets and funds in the United States… In the war launched by Washington against Beijing, the second and third fronts, technological and financial, are open .
The Trump administration is hitting hard, knowing that the Chinese side has much more to lose in this forced decoupling.
This strategy is working for the moment, as shown by Huawei's difficulties in sourcing microchips, or the trade war which costs Beijing much more.
According to economists, it weighed down US growth by 0.3 points against 1.6 points in China.
It may become difficult for Chinese companies to operate outside of China
Lindsay Gorman, New Technology Specialist at the Alliance to Secure Democracy, based in the United States
The truce announced by the signing of a trade agreement in January was therefore only of very short duration.
Donald Trump quickly attacked, one by one, all the Chinese technological flagships that he accuses of being in Beijing's pay and of collecting digital data from American citizens.
Thus TikTok, one of the media
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