Trade War with China
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AI is no opium but its purpose is not for some idea of self sufficiency.
AI and hardware goes hand in hand, particularly developing processors and core architectures specifically meant for AI processing. We are already seeing these being implemented into smartphone SOCs, like the latest Kirins, and its being used for digital image processing and image recognition. Namely for better images to start with. But implications can be deeper, including the use of AI for deep state surveillance of the population.
Cloud applications on AI often include scanning for patterns on large databases, databases that often involved mined personal information, medical and financial records, etc,. There are countless possibilities for AI, some benevolent like driverless cars, some sinister like surveillance.
AI and hardware goes hand in hand, particularly developing processors and core architectures specifically meant for AI processing. We are already seeing these being implemented into smartphone SOCs, like the latest Kirins, and its being used for digital image processing and image recognition. Namely for better images to start with. But implications can be deeper, including the use of AI for deep state surveillance of the population.
Cloud applications on AI often include scanning for patterns on large databases, databases that often involved mined personal information, medical and financial records, etc,. There are countless possibilities for AI, some benevolent like driverless cars, some sinister like surveillance.
Direct democracy : )surely you have a theory how to solve all the world problems, better than the economists ... come on don't be shy ... I know you know everything
That is the answer for the world problems : P
Huawei can expect such types of restrictions and bans from all US allies.
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Which government or government officials to trust in such matters, I suppose becomes the question. Germany has been spied on by friend and foe alike, from Head of State on down, as Snowden & Wikileaks revealed. Are they a more neutral party vis-a-vis China? I'm not sure.
We won't be having a word with local firms until then
By 18 Dec 2018 at 18:30
Germany's top cybersecurity official has said he hasn't seen any evidence for the espionage allegations against Huawei.
Arne Schönbohm, president of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the nation's cyber-risk assessment agency in Bonn, that there is "currently no reliable evidence" of a risk from Huawei.
"For such serious decisions such as a ban, you need evidence," Schönbohm said. Should that change, the BSI will "actively approach German industry" he assured the paper.
Huawei has opened a facility in Bonn, in west Germany, where it shares code and allows Schönbohm's risk assessors to inspect Huawei kit. This is along the same lines as the UK's Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) in Banbury, informally known as "The Cell", which addresses GCHQ's concerns about backdoors in Huawei products.
This has been running for seven years and the Oversight Board has now produced four annual reports. The most recent, in July, that "the Oversight Board can provide only limited assurance that all risks to UK national security from Huawei's involvement in the UK's critical networks have been sufficiently mitigated".
UK's Huawei handler dials back support for Chinese giant's kit in critical infrastructure
HCSEC attempts to replicate Huawei binaries from source code provided by the company to ensure end-to-end scrutiny. It hasn't fully completed this, the Oversight Board said, and also expressed concerns about third-party software ().
"There are no concerns about individual companies," Peter Altmaier, German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, confirmed to on Monday. "But each product, each device must be secure if it is going to be used in Germany."
The Five Eyes states have led concerns against Huawei without citing specific evidence. Australia confirmed in 2013 that it had blocked Huawei from its NBN fibre programme, and in August it from selling 5G gear. A last month suggested New Zealand companies were being advised to avoid doing deals with Huawei.
Twelve days ago, , on a US warrant over an unrelated issue: circumventing sanctions against Iran.
Huawei privately bridles at comparisons with the state-owned telco ZTE and can point out that it has been the victim of hacking. In 2014, the and reported on "Operation Shotgiant", a multiyear operation by America's National Security Agency (NSA) that infiltrated Huawei's network at its Shenzhen HQ and yielded confidential source code.
"Many of our targets communicate over Huawei produced products, we want to make sure that we know how to exploit these products," one NSA document explained.
"The Huawei revelations are devastating rebuttals to hypocritical US complaints about Chinese penetration of US networks," former DoD counsel Jack Goldsmith.
Deutsche Telekom has a close strategic relationship with Huawei but said it was matters this week. Orange pledged to continue its relationships with Huawei's European 5G rivals, Nokia and Ericsson.
Which comes as relief for the latter. The UK's O2 is reportedly seeking up to £100m in damages from Ericsson for a that deprived over 30 million customers of . ®
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Unfortunately, bringing back old arguments in which you were already defeated isn't going to make the right the second... or third time around. The masses don't have the organization, intellect, or education to make correct choices without a leader. You could not point out even 1 modern country that uses direct democracy; you couldn't even find a company that could survive on the model. The only time direct democracy is used is when governments collapse and people kill each other freely making the largest mob the final voice. Somalia has this kind of direct democracy; go check it out!
Another forgotten front of cold trade war.
Come Dec 2019 two more are due for renewal out of three minimal for the system to work.
Will Trump say US leaves WTO by then?
So much for rule based world order.
China, EU decry U.S. tariffs, blockage of Appellate Body appointments
Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-19 16:51:59|Editor: ZX
GENEVA, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- China and the European Union (EU), among other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), have accused the United States of imposing protectionist trade measures and paralyzing the WTO by blocking new appointments to its dispute settlement mechanism, the Appellate Body.
During the 14th Trade Policy Review of the United States that started Monday, China's Ambassador to the WTO Zhang Xiangchen said "it is ... unfortunate that we are seeing, since the last trade policy review, especially during the past year, a different America with severely mismatched power and responsibility."
Recalling the additional tariff measures applied since the beginning of this year by Washington on steel and aluminum, among others, Zhang said that the measures allow "protectionism to be at large" under the pretext of national security, and "bring back to life the ghost of unilateralism that has been dormant for decades."
Zhang also criticized the blockage of the selection of WTO Appellate Body members, warning that the blockage "practically digs out the crown-jewel of the multilateral trading system."
The ambassador said that China, along with the EU and some other members, lately tabled a joint proposal for the reform of the Appellate Body and his country also raised three fundamental principles and five proposals concerning reforms of the WTO.
China hopes to work with all members of the organization, including the United States, to push for necessary reforms at the WTO through consultations "on equal grounds," to make the organization "up-to-date with the realities, adaptable to the developments of the economic globalization and responsive to the expectations from the global business community," he said.
Marc Vanheukelen, EU Ambassador to the WTO, warned that "the multilateral trading system is in a deep crisis, and the United States is at its epicenter."
"Today, unfortunately, (U.S. protectionist) rhetoric has turned into reality, and the repercussions of tariffs and other restrictions are being felt at the heart of this organization, and more generally in global growth prospects," he said.
Vanheukelen also said the EU deeply regrets the current crisis in the Appellate Body.
Harm to the independence of adjudicators will not lead to reform but rather to a collapse of the multilateral trading system that has benefited us all, the EU ambassador said.
The Appellate Body functions as the WTO's de facto court of appeals and is composed of seven members. However, only three of the seven members are in office since the United States has refused to initiate the process to fill vacancies.
On the same occasion, a Japanese representative said that Japan "deeply regrets" the national security measures on steel and aluminum, as such actions disrupt the global market and have a negative impact on the multilateral trading system.
Trade policy reviews, in which WTO members' trade and related policies are examined and evaluated at regular intervals, aim to increase the transparency of the members' trade policies.
Significant developments that may have an impact on the global trading system are also monitored.
The United States on Monday held the first session of its 14th WTO Trade Policy Review, which will continue on Wednesday.
Come Dec 2019 two more are due for renewal out of three minimal for the system to work.
Will Trump say US leaves WTO by then?
So much for rule based world order.
China, EU decry U.S. tariffs, blockage of Appellate Body appointments
Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-19 16:51:59|Editor: ZX
GENEVA, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- China and the European Union (EU), among other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), have accused the United States of imposing protectionist trade measures and paralyzing the WTO by blocking new appointments to its dispute settlement mechanism, the Appellate Body.
During the 14th Trade Policy Review of the United States that started Monday, China's Ambassador to the WTO Zhang Xiangchen said "it is ... unfortunate that we are seeing, since the last trade policy review, especially during the past year, a different America with severely mismatched power and responsibility."
Recalling the additional tariff measures applied since the beginning of this year by Washington on steel and aluminum, among others, Zhang said that the measures allow "protectionism to be at large" under the pretext of national security, and "bring back to life the ghost of unilateralism that has been dormant for decades."
Zhang also criticized the blockage of the selection of WTO Appellate Body members, warning that the blockage "practically digs out the crown-jewel of the multilateral trading system."
The ambassador said that China, along with the EU and some other members, lately tabled a joint proposal for the reform of the Appellate Body and his country also raised three fundamental principles and five proposals concerning reforms of the WTO.
China hopes to work with all members of the organization, including the United States, to push for necessary reforms at the WTO through consultations "on equal grounds," to make the organization "up-to-date with the realities, adaptable to the developments of the economic globalization and responsive to the expectations from the global business community," he said.
Marc Vanheukelen, EU Ambassador to the WTO, warned that "the multilateral trading system is in a deep crisis, and the United States is at its epicenter."
"Today, unfortunately, (U.S. protectionist) rhetoric has turned into reality, and the repercussions of tariffs and other restrictions are being felt at the heart of this organization, and more generally in global growth prospects," he said.
Vanheukelen also said the EU deeply regrets the current crisis in the Appellate Body.
Harm to the independence of adjudicators will not lead to reform but rather to a collapse of the multilateral trading system that has benefited us all, the EU ambassador said.
The Appellate Body functions as the WTO's de facto court of appeals and is composed of seven members. However, only three of the seven members are in office since the United States has refused to initiate the process to fill vacancies.
On the same occasion, a Japanese representative said that Japan "deeply regrets" the national security measures on steel and aluminum, as such actions disrupt the global market and have a negative impact on the multilateral trading system.
Trade policy reviews, in which WTO members' trade and related policies are examined and evaluated at regular intervals, aim to increase the transparency of the members' trade policies.
Significant developments that may have an impact on the global trading system are also monitored.
The United States on Monday held the first session of its 14th WTO Trade Policy Review, which will continue on Wednesday.
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