Trump works for Beijing and Moscow [Collection of evidences]

[LordBrownTrout]

This is funny stuff.

 

[revealer2k]

Evidences are so fearful that either they are not allowed to shown or the providers are called 'bot's ?

Your mass plagiarism is staggering...lets worry about all the wetbacks invading us, raping, murdering and pillaging our people first...THEN we'll chase all your bizarre conspiracy theories, China and Russia...deal?

Because some individuals committed some crimes, those who haven't committed any crimes should also be punished, this is your logic ?

Trump works for Beijing and Moscow, this is not a conspiracy theory, but a very obvious fact. Trump already achieved many strategic goals for Beijing and Moscow, and is continuously destroying America. It is astonishing that Trump works for Beijing and Moscow in such an obvious way, yet many Trump supports still cannot see it ...

 

[revealer2k]

Beijing & Moscow had created A Cult Of Trump by manipulating group leaders, politicians, tycoons, and medias.

‘The Cult Of Trump’ And How It Came To Be


What Happens When the President Acts like a Cult Leader?


Trump Cult Member FURIOUS at Being Called Cultist

 

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GOP senator calls out party for 'cult-like situation'


The Future Of The Trump ‘Cult’


Anthony Scaramucci likens Donald Trump support to a cult

 

[revealer2k]

New Poll Proves Trump’s Supporters Are A Cult


Former Trump Supporters Speak Out After Leaving the MAGA Cult


[Los Angeles Times] Call Trumpism what it is: a cult

Column: Call Trumpism what it is: a cult

What the cult diagnosis may lack in scholarly rigor, it makes up for in explanatory power. When polled, far too many Republicans come across as having abandoned their commitment to libertarianism, family values or simple logic in favor of Trump worship. They’re lost to paranoia and factually unmoored talking points, just the way Hassan was lost to Sun Myung Moon.

It can be heartbreaking when loved ones succumb to Trumpism. (It’s a double whammy when your grief is dismissed as liberal tears.) A true believer undergoes a “radical personal change,” as Hassan puts it. The person you once knew seems somehow ... not there.

The false prophet in the White House
The false prophet in the White House

False Idol — Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump
False Idol -- Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump

 

[BrokeLoser]

Beijing & Moscow had created A Cult Of Trump by manipulating group leaders, politicians, tycoons, and medias.

‘The Cult Of Trump’ And How It Came To Be


What Happens When the President Acts like a Cult Leader?


Trump Cult Member FURIOUS at Being Called Cultist

Nobody had a cult following like the Kenyan Super Nig did...remember when educators were indoctrinating our youth with Hussein songs?
Remember when 95% of that cult group / negroes voted for him on his skin color alone?
Damn, thanks for the reminder...I almost forgot about that shit.

 

[revealer2k]

Trump the King Of Lies


[Wikipedia] Veracity of statements by Donald Trump:

Veracity of statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia

[Washington post] President Trump has made 15,413 false or misleading claims over 1,055 days:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...as-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/


[The New York Times] Trump's Biggest and Most Dangerous Lie

Opinion | Trump’s Biggest and Most Dangerous Lie


Trump lies on environmental issues, in order to raise the price of oil, to help Russia's economy

Trump Lies

How does the price of oil affect Russia's economy?

How does the price of oil affect Russia's economy?

How Does The Price Of Oil Affect The Russian Economy?

How Does The Price Of Oil Affect The Russian Economy? - FXCM Markets

President Donald Trump's Lies: The Definitive List:


President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims


Trump's ex-colleagues open up about his history of lies



Jim Carrey Pens Scathing Poem About ‘King Of Lies’ Donald Trump

Jim Carrey Pens Scathing Poem About 'King Of Lies' Donald Trump | HuffPost


[The New York Times] Lord of the Lies

Opinion | Lord of the Lies

 

[revealer2k]

Chinese Americans for Trump (CAFT) misled plenty of Chinese Americans to vote for Trump

Wechat, a software produced by Tencent, is actually a spy tool controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, used to monitor people all around the world, and spread pro-CCP rumors.

Tian Wang, the leader of Chinese Americans for Trump, has a deep relationship with Tencent and Chinese Embassy.

[VOA] Chinese Americans for Trump Going Against National Trend

[Translation] A pro-Trump film focused on CAFT, is funded by Tencent.

 

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[CNN] Fareed Zakaria - Wechat is a tool for monitoring people and spreading rumors to influence Chinese voters in the USA and Australia

[Start at about 26:55] ‎Fareed Zakaria GPS: January 12, 2020 | On GPS: The reverberations of the killing of a top general continue in Iran and throughout the Middle East on Apple Podcasts

 

[revealer2k]

Trump ignites the Middle East tinderbox in order to shift the US's strategic focus from Asia-Pacific to the Middle East, giving tremendous strategic benefit to Beijing and Moscow.

[Wikipedia] United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel

United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel - Wikipedia

On December 6, 2017, US President Donald Trump announced the United States recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and ordered the planning of the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital was rejected by a majority of world leaders. The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on December 7 where 14 out of 15 members condemned Trump's decision, but the motion was vetoed by the United States. Britain, France, Sweden, Italy and Japan were among the countries who criticized Trump's decision at the emergency meeting.

Israel

On December 6, shortly after Trump's statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the announcement was a "historic landmark" and praised the decision as "courageous and just". During his remarks Netanyahu said there is "no peace that doesn't include Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel".

Palestinian

Palestinian officials said the announcement disqualifies the United States from peace talks. Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah said the policy change "destroys the peace process". Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas gave a speech where he said the decision meant the United States was "abdicating its role as a peace mediator".

Christian churches based in Jerusalem

On December 6, 2017, the primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, Patriarch Theophilos III, widely regarded as the most senior Christian figure in Jerusalem, and twelve other church leaders in the Holy Land sent a letter to Trump warning that his move “w[ould] yield increased hatred, conflict, violence and suffering in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, moving us farther from the goal of unity and deeper toward destructive division”. Apart from Theophilos III, the letter was signed by heads of Jerusalem's Syrian, Armenian, Ethiopioan and Coptic Orthodox patriarchates as well as the Roman Catholic Church's Apostolic Administrator for Jerusalem (the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem). It was also signed by the Franciscan Order, the Greek-Melkite-Catholic patriarchate, the Maronites, the Episcopal Church, the Armenian Catholic and Syrian Catholic churches and the Evangelical Lutherans.[64]

International response

Trump's Jerusalem decision was widely condemned by world leaders. European US allies that objected include Britain, Germany, Italy and France.

Pope Francis also made a plea that all nations remain committed to "respecting the status quo" of the city.

[BBC] Jerusalem embassy: Why Trump's move was not about peace

Why Trump and Jerusalem was not about peace

[Reuters] Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, reversing longtime U.S. policy

Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, reversing longtime U.S. policy

The status of Jerusalem - home to sites holy to the Muslim, Jewish and Christian religions - is one of the biggest obstacles to reaching a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.

The international community does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the entire city, believing its status should be resolved in negotiations. No other country has its embassy in Jerusalem.

Trump’s decision fulfills a campaign promise and will please Republican conservatives and evangelicals who make up a sizeable portion of his domestic support.

Trump’s decision risks further inflaming a region already grappling with conflict in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

Protests broke out in areas of Jordan’s capital, Amman, inhabited by Palestinian refugees, and several hundred protesters gathered outside the U.S. consulate in Istanbul.

The United States is asking Israel to temper its response to Trump’s announcement because Washington expects a backlash and is weighing the potential threat to U.S. facilities and people, according to a State Department document seen by Reuters.

[The New York Times] What's The Impact of Trump’s Jerusalem Shift?


[BBC] US recognition of Jerusalem 'kiss of death' for peace process

 

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Trump ignites the Middle East tinderbox further by recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel.

[Wikipedia] United States recognition of the Golan Heights as part of Israel:

United States recognition of the Golan Heights as part of Israel - Wikipedia

The United States recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel through a presidential proclamation signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on March 25, 2019.

Israel captured Golan from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and formally annexed it with the Golan Heights Law in 1981, in a move that was not internationally recognized. The international community has condemned the capture and annexation as an illegal military occupation by Israel.

In December 2017, Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the U.S. embassy to the city, despite the international community viewing East Jerusalem as under Israeli military occupation.

On March 21, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that it was "time for the United States to fully recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights."[5] The move was welcomed by Israel.[6] Dozens of people from the Druze community in the Golan Heights protested against Trump's announcement.[7]

Four days later, on 25 March 2019, in a joint press conference in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump signed a proclamation stating that "the United States recognizes that the Golan Heights are part of the State of Israel."

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that "the status of Golan has not changed,"[4][11] and the US's move resulted in condemnation, criticism or rejection from the European Union,[12][13][14] United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, Egypt, the Arab League, Russia,[4][15][16] Ireland,[17] Saudi Arabia,[18] Oman,[19] the United Arab Emirates,[20] Bahrain,[21] Qatar,[22] Kuwait,[23] Jordan,[24] Iraq,[25] Iran,[26] Mauritania,[27] Morocco,[28] Tunisia,[29] Somalia,[30] Lebanon,[31] Japan,[32] Cuba,[33] Venezuela,[34] Indonesia,[35] Canada,[36] Pakistan,[37] Sudan,[38] Malaysia,[39] Vietnam,[40] and China.[41]

Syria called the move a "blatant attack" on its sovereignty and territorial integrity and maintained that it had a right to reclaim the territory.[4] The state-owned news organization Syrian Arab News Agency reported that protests were held in several Syrian provinces against Trump’s declaration.[42] Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah, whose group was mentioned as a threat to Israel in the proclamation, stated that "resistance, resistance, and resistance" was the only way to take back the Israeli-occupied territories.[43]

[Washington Post] No president has recognized Israel’s control of the Golan Heights. Trump changed that with a tweet.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...-golan-heights-trump-changed-that-with-tweet/

The United States supported this status quo. ...... On Thursday, President Trump upended U.S. policy on the region — with a single 35-word tweet.

Though welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the move prompted a backlash from a number of other states, including Syria, Russia and Iran. Some critics have noted that Trump’s announcement came shortly before Israeli elections April 9 in which Netanyahu, a vocal supporter of the U.S. president, is facing his toughest competition in years (the Israeli prime minister is also scheduled to visit the White House next week).

[Washington Post] Trump's Golan tweet inflames regional tensions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...13134e-4c1a-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html

 

[revealer2k]

[Washington Post] Trump just made a huge mistake in the Middle East

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/22/trump-just-made-huge-mistake-middle-east/

No “final status” agreement was ever reached with the Palestinians, and no agreement at all with the Syrians, but 242 served as the basis of all peace talks since 1967.

Now Trump has killed 242 just as surely as he has killed all standards of presidential decorum. And to what end? No one has been contesting Israeli control over the Golan Heights. Trump is stirring up a controversy where none existed and thereby handing a present to Hezbollah and Bashar al-Assad by allowing them to posture as the resistance to Israeli occupation rather than be recognized as what they are — the butchers of their fellow Muslims.

With this typically thoughtless and impetuous act, Trump is opening a Pandora’s box where states are allowed to change international borders by force. He is making not just Netanyahu but also Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping very happy.

What Trump's Golan Heights proclamation means for Israel and Mideast peace


UN and European leaders reject Trump's stance over Golan Heights


Right after Trump recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel, a great influential power helped Trump --- William P. Barr 'redacted' the Mueller report, the Trump-Russia investigation failed, and Barr started a revenge on behalf of Trump.

 

[revealer2k]

The Moscow Project
--- How decades of Donald Trump’s business dealings and Vladimir Putin’s assault on western democracy converged during the 2016 election cycle and beyond

Chapters - The Moscow Project

For decades, Donald Trump has relied on Russian money to bail him out after repeated business failures. Meanwhile, as liberal “color revolutions” threatened Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, he developed a strategy of “hybrid warfare” to sow discord and dissent in western democracies. By the time Trump decided to run for president, his relationships with powerful Russian figures and admiration for Putin made him a perfect candidate for Russia’s efforts to undermine American democracy—and his campaign was ready and willing to help. Since his victory, Trump has continued to align himself with Putin’s strategic goals, all while his administration attempts to obstruct any investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, and his own campaign’s complicity in that effort.

Hybrid Warfare --- Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy to undermine democracies around the world

Chapter 2 - The Moscow Project

In recent years, the Kremlin has supported—financially and otherwise—candidates, parties, and causes in several countries.

As the Center for Strategic and International Studies report “The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe” describes, the Russian government “has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision-making.” Under Putin, the Kremlin has developed a codependent relationship with the country’s oligarchs, many of whom accumulated their wealth through illegal or ethically questionable means after the Soviet Union’s dissolution. The otherwise kleptocratic Kremlin allows these oligarchs to retain their wealth through the understanding that they will act on Putin’s behalf. Their duties in this regard range from elaborate displays of obeisance to, as “The Kremlin Playbook” explicates, developing corrupt financial relationships with politicians and businesspeople throughout Central and Eastern Europe to assist the Russian government in achieving its policy goals.

“The Kremlin Playbook” focuses mainly on countries in Central and Eastern Europe, many of which are or recently were emerging democracies and members of the Warsaw Pact. However, there are indications that the Kremlin has pursued similar strategies in the West as well.

Cultivating an Asset --- How Donald Trump became the perfect candidate for Russia's assault on American democracy.

Chapter 3 - The Moscow Project

Putin's Payoff --- How collusion between Trump and Russia creates an ongoing threat to American democracy.
Chapter 5 - The Moscow Project

The threat Russian interference poses to American democracy didn’t end with Donald Trump’s election. Trump has pursued a foreign policy agenda that advances Russia’s objectives, including by attacking the U.S. intelligence community, opposing sanctions and strong responses against Russia, weakening the transatlantic alliance, and undermining democratic institutions at home, all while praising autocrats and attacking democratically elected leaders of close allies.

Attacking NATO allies

Trump’s antagonism toward Western allies goes far beyond his initial refusal to reaffirm NATO’s Article 5. Trump has repeatedly attacked European leaders, straining relations with countries ranging from Canada and the United Kingdom to Australia. He has repeatedly undermined unifying aspects of global summits, such as when he unexpectedly backed out of a traditional joint communiqué at the end of the 2018 G-7 summit and threatened to impose additional tariffs on Canada in response to a perceived slight from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trump’s own staff have reportedly begun negotiating deals with other leaders attending upcoming summits prior to Trump’s arrival, to ensure that he doesn’t create further tensions and derail their alliances.

These insults matter for two main reasons. The first is that they deliver on one of Putin’s key goals, which is to divide NATO and other transatlantic alliances, thus strengthening Putin’s own hand in international negotiations. Trump’s erratic behavior toward other world leaders appears to have contributed to a precipitous drop in other countries’ sense of trust in the United States. Additionally, Trump’s constant criticism highlights just how unusual his praise for Putin truly is: Trump apparently sees no problem with potentially alienating the leaders of some of America’s closest allies, but repeatedly refuses to criticize Putin, citing the desire to improve relations with Russia.

What makes Trump’s actions and rhetoric toward Russia so difficult to comprehend is that, with an intense political scandal raging over Trump’s links to Russia, he has every political incentive to adopt a stronger and more confrontational approach to Russia. Instead, Trump has repeatedly praised Putin and refused to act against Russian interests.

 

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Trump's relationship with terrorists

[The New Yorker] Donald Trump’s Worst Deal

March 6, 2017

The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

Donald Trump’s Worst Deal

The Trump Tower Baku never opened. Trump partnered with an Azerbaijani family that U.S. officials called notoriously unethical.

The building, a five-star hotel and residence called the Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku, has never opened, though from the road it looks ready to welcome the public.

In 2012, after Donald Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, signed multiple contracts with the Azerbaijani developers behind the project, plans were made to transform the tower into an “ultra-luxury property.”

According to Garten, Trump played a passive role in the development of the property: he was “merely a licensor” who allowed his famous name to be used by a company headed by Ziya Mammadov’s son, Anar, a young entrepreneur. It’s not clear how much money Trump made from the licensing agreement, although in his limited public filings he has reported receiving $2.8 million.

Trump’s company had made the deal not just with Anar Mammadov but also with Ziya’s brother Elton—an influential member of the Azerbaijani parliament. Elton signed the contracts, and in an interview he confirmed that he founded Baku XXI Century, the company that owns the Trump Tower Baku.

An Azerbaijani lawyer who worked on the project revealed to me that the Trump Organization had not just licensed the family name; it also had signed a technical-services agreement in which it promised to help its partner meet Trump design standards.

The Azerbaijani lawyer told me, “We were always following their instructions. We were in constant contact with the Trump Organization. They approved the smallest details.” He said that Trump staff visited Baku at least monthly to give the go-ahead for the next round of work orders. Trump designers went to Turkey to vet the furniture and fabrics acquired there. The hotel’s main designer, Pierre Baillargeon, and several contractors told me that they had visited the Trump Organization headquarters, in New York, to secure approval for their plans.

Ivanka Trump was the most senior Trump Organization official on the Baku project. In October, 2014, she visited the city to tour the site and offer advice.

But the Mammadov family, in addition to its reputation for corruption, has a troubling connection that any proper risk assessment should have unearthed: for years, it has been financially entangled with an Iranian family tied to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideologically driven military force.

The U.S. government has regularly accused the Guard of criminal activity, including drug trafficking, sponsoring terrorism abroad, and money laundering.

But the Trump Organization may have broken the law in its work with the Mammadov family. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, passed in 1977, forbade American companies from participating in a scheme to reward a foreign government official in exchange for material benefit or preferential treatment. The law even made it a crime for an American company to unknowingly benefit from a partner’s corruption if it could have discovered illicit activity but avoided doing so. This closed what was known as the “head in the sand” loophole.

Much of the land occupied by the Trump Tower Baku complex was once packed with houses. In 2011, residents received letters from the local government authority informing them that their homes were to be demolished to make way for a project of crucial government significance. Thirty families were evicted. One resident, Minaye Azizova, told me that the government gave her eighteen thousand dollars in compensation for a home that, by her estimation, was worth five times as much. After she discovered that her home had been condemned so that Baku XXI Century could build a luxury tower, she sued the government.

Alan Garten, the Trump Organization lawyer, did not deny that there was corruption involved in the project.

The entire Baku deal is a giant red flag—the direct involvement of foreign government officials and their relatives in Azerbaijan with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

 

[revealer2k]

[Axios] John Bolton hits Trump for bluffing on North Korea nukes

Exclusive: John Bolton hits Trump for bluffing on North Korea nuclear policy

In his sharpest criticism yet of his old workplace, John Bolton suggested the Trump administration is bluffing about stopping North Korea's nuclear ambitions — and soon might need to admit publicly that its policy failed badly.

Kim is back on his white horse, and the North Korean nuclear threat may be greater than ever, analysts say.

North Korea has intimated it will test some kind of advanced weapons in the coming weeks — weapons it's developed as Trump has tried to woo Kim.

Bolton, who has advocated for a more aggressive North Korea strategy, also criticized Trump for saying earlier this year that Kim's short-range missile tests don't bother him.

"When the president says, 'Well, I'm not worried about short-range missiles,' he's saying, 'I'm not worried about the potential risk to American troops deployed in the region or our treaty allies, South Korea and Japan.'"

The imminent threats from North Korea seem a world away from June 2018, when Trump returned from his Singapore summit with Kim to boast, "There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea."

In reality, Kim has expanded his nuclear arsenal since then, analysts say.

Using data from analysts and governments around the world, Japan's Nagasaki University estimated in June that Kim now has as many as 30 nuclear warheads. That's on the lower end of estimates, and it's up from as many as 20 warheads in the same study last year.

[The New York Times] North Korea Is No Longer Bound by Nuclear Test Moratorium, Kim Says

North Korea Is No Longer Bound by Nuclear Test Moratorium, Kim Says

 

[hjmick]

Okay... no need to pay attention to anything this newb posts...

 

[revealer2k]

Trump continuously destroys the international order and international rules established by the US, fulfilling Beijing and Moscow's strategic wishes.


[The Economic Times] In a WTO Without Dispute Settlement

December 4, 2019

In a WTO Without Dispute Settlement

The appellate body of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) would almost certainly become non-functional soon, because America has blocked new appointments to the court.

The WTO appellate court is supposed to consist of seven judges; the court decides on appeals against decisions by the Dispute Settlement Mechanism on alleged violation of global trade rules. But the WTO bench has of late dwindled to just three judges, and two of them will retire this month; a single judge cannot hold court. So, dispute settlement may well go into deep freeze at WTO, unless the Trump administration does a rethink, which is unlikely.

[REUTERS] U.S. blocks WTO judge reappointment as dispute settlement crisis looms

August 27, 2018

U.S. blocks WTO judge reappointment as dispute settlement crisis looms

U.S. President Donald Trump has railed against the WTO, calling it a catastrophe and a disaster. He has said the United States loses cases because other countries have most of the judges.

If the U.S. veto paralyses the dispute system, it would end 23 years of WTO enforcement, the keystone of international efforts to prevent trade protectionism, at a time of heightened global trade tensions.

[Washington Post] Trump is fighting an open war on trade. His stealth war on trade may be even more important.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...alth-war-on-trade-may-be-even-more-important/

The Trump administration has been waging a behind-the-scenes campaign against the WTO’s dispute settlement system. It is holding hostage the selection of new members to the AB, which functions as the WTO’s de facto court of appeals, unless unspecified U.S. demands are met.

This U.S.-made crisis threatens to undo the multilateral rules-based trading system that the U.S. created after the Cold War and replace it with a return to aggressive power politics unchecked by the rule of law.

Yet outside the public eye, the Trump administration has been mounting a high-stakes attack on the WTO’s judicial process. If it succeeds, the consequences for the world trade system will be grim.

The Trump administration appears to want to intimidate and even paralyze the WTO Appellate Body.

The edifice of the rules-based international trading system has stood for decades, but international courts and the rule of law are fragile, and there is no guarantee that they will stand up to a sustained assault.

 

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Trump calls part of Constitution 'phony'


Is Trump Trying To Silence His Former National Security Adviser?

 

[Intolerant]

Another one goes into the shit box.

 

[revealer2k]

[Washington Post] Senators ask Trump to suspend licensing for tech sales to Huawei

https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...-ask-trump-suspend-licenses-sell-tech-huawei/

A bipartisan group of senators wants President Trump’s administration to suspend its approval of U.S. technology sales to China’s Huawei, saying the manufacturer of cellphones and 5G network equipment poses risks to national security.

In a letter to Trump sent Thursday, 15 senators expressed concern about the Commerce Department’s move to begin issuing licenses allowing some sales of semiconductors and other parts, despite Huawei’s remaining on a U.S. trade blacklist. The Commerce Department’s action was announced Wednesday.

The senators, led by Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), asked the president to suspend the granting of licenses until the Commerce Department briefs Congress on the national security implications.

[VOA] Trump Administration OKs Microsoft License to Send Software to Huawei

Trump Administration OKs Microsoft License to Send Software to Huawei

Microsoft Corp said Thursday it had been granted a license from the U.S. government to export software to Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.

“On November 20, the U.S. Department of Commerce granted Microsoft’s request for a license to export mass-market software to Huawei. We appreciate the department’s action in response to our request,” a Microsoft spokesman told Reuters via email.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday gave Huawei its second reprieve this week, allowing some suppliers to restart sales to the Chinese telecoms giant after it was placed on a trade blacklist over national security concerns six months ago.

US issuing licenses

The Commerce Department confirmed it had begun issuing licenses for some companies to sell goods to Huawei, expanding the company’s supplier base and providing long-awaited clarity to the industry that once sold it billions of dollars’ worth of goods.

[CNBC] Huawei staff share deep links with Chinese military

Huawei staff share deep links with Chinese military, new study claims

A new analysis of employment information of Huawei personnel appears to show deeper links between the technology giant and China’s military and intelligence bodies than previously acknowledged by the firm.

One CV describes an individual who held a dual role at Huawei and an organization linked to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

[Financial Times] Huawei CVs show close links with military, study says

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