Did China Defeat President Trump In The Tech War?

US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at a G20 summit. Xi is still smiling. Photo: AFP/The Yomiuri Shimbun 

Asia Times: Trump waves white flag at China’s tech titans 

White House’s China tech war is dwindling into defeat as Trump crashes and burns in his final days. 

TOKYO - In his game of chicken with China, Donald Trump’s imploding White House just flinched in 

a big way. 

After bombastic threats to the contrary, the US president won’t blacklist mainland tech titans Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent after all, say the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and others. 

It’s a climbdown about which neither Trump nor Secretary of State Mike Pompeo can be happy. And it’s a move that speaks to the abject failure of the US side in the Sino-US trade and tech wars.

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WNU Editor: Not really .... Smartphone giant Xiaomi reels as US ramps up China blacklist (AFP). And Huawei has definitely been crippled. The decision now rests with the incoming Biden administration on what to do with Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.

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