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Trade war or tech war?

This is not a fight that either side can back down on; you can imagine a compromise on tariffs and trade that Trump and Xi tried to hammer out but there can be no compromise on the technological race

Wanzhou Meng, HUAWEI CFO, Wanzhou, Huawei
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Wanzhou Meng, Huawei CFO (Photo: Bloomberg)

Mihir S Sharma
The arrest of Huawei Tech-nology’s Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou, by Canadian authorities in Vancouver on behalf of the United States represents an extraordinary escalation in tensions between Beijing and Washington — just days after a truce seemed to have been declared in the trade war by American and Chinese leaders at the G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires. Meng was arrested because the US accuses Huawei of subverting sanctions against Iran — the details of the case are still not clear, however, as the US has kept some details secret. But it is worth noting that Meng is no ordinary
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