Google reverses decision to cut ties with Huawei after US eases trade restrictions

[Dungeness]

Yet another major Flip-Flop at national level?

Google reverses decision to cut ties with Huawei after US eases trade restrictions
PUBLISHED TUE, MAY 21 2019 4:57 AM EDTUPDATED 4 HOURS AGO

Sam Meredith@SMEREDITH19

KEY POINTS

• The U.S. Commerce Department announced Monday it had granted a 90-day license for mobile phone companies and internet broadband providers to work with Huawei to keep existing networks online and protect users from security risks.
• The exemption allows Google to send software updates to Huawei phones which use its Android operating system through to August 19.

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Alphabet Inc’s Google said Tuesday that it plans to work with China’s Huawei over the next 90 days, shortly after the U.S. temporarily eased some trade restrictions on the world’s second-largest smartphone maker.

The move marks a sudden and dramatic turnabout for the U.S. tech conglomerate. On Sunday, Google said it would cut ties with Huawei in order to comply with Washington’s decision to put China’s telecom giant on the so-called Entity List.


However, shortly thereafter, the U.S. Commerce Department announced it had granted a 90-day license for mobile phone companies and internet broadband providers to work with Huawei to keep existing networks online and protect users from security risks.

The exemption allows Google to send software updates to Huawei phones which use its Android operating system through to August 19.

“Keeping phones up to date and secure is in everyone’s best interests and this temporary license allows us to continue to provide software updates and security patches to existing models for the next 90 days,” a Google spokesperson told CNBC in an email on Tuesday.

Temporary general license
The U.S. Commerce Department said it would assess whether to extend the temporary exemptions beyond 90 days.

Late last week, the Commerce Department added Huawei and 68 other entities to an export blacklist, rendering it practically impossible for the Chinese company to purchase goods made in the U.S.


The companies placed on the Entity List are deemed to be engaged in activities that threaten the national security or the foreign policy interests of the U.S.

Monday’s announcement explained the latest authorization had been created as a temporary general license. It allows disclosures of security vulnerabilities and for Huawei to engage in the development of standards for future 5G networks — effectively prompting the firm to become more transparent.

A spokesperson for Huawei declined to comment when contacted by CNBC.

Huawei was the second-largest smartphone maker by global market share in the first quarter. The company has previously laid out its ambitions to become the top player in smartphones by 2020.

Out of the $70 billion Huawei spent buying components in 2018, some $11 billion went to U.S. firms including Qualcomm, Intel and Micron Technology.

Just over 49% of Huawei’s smartphone shipments went to international markets outside of mainland China in the first quarter of 2019, according to Canalys.

— CNBC’s Penny Chen and Reuters contributed to this article.

Google reverses decision to cut ties with Huawei

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

What a joke

 

[mandrom]

Clearly the reasons are :

1)US component provider lose lucrative income stream
2) China can harass Boeing and Apple and ruin US stock market.

But ,China is suffering more from trade war.

 

[Offshore]

it's already too late, damage done.. now Huawei can't trust western companies. self reliant is the only way to go..

 

[mandrom]

it's already too late, damage done.. now Huawei can't trust western companies. self reliant is the only way to go..

The indigenous Chinese Semiconductor fab lithography is 28 nm mosfet . Samsung,Global Foundries,intel ,TSMC are making 10,14,16 nm Finfet.

There will be problems .

 

[Dungeness]

Bloomberg Editorial
Trump’s Huawei Attack Is a Serious Mistake
Banning one of China’s most high-profile companies from U.S. networks makes sense. Putting it out of business does not.

Editorial Board
May 20, 2019, 3:30 AM PDT

Not worth it. Photographer: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

In its struggle with China over trade and national security, the U.S. has many legitimate grievances, and a variety of weapons for seeking redress. That doesn’t mean it should use all of them.



The nuclear missile the U.S. just launched at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a case in point. Last week, the Commerce Department placed Huawei and nearly 70 of its affiliates on an “Entity List,” which means that U.S. suppliers may now need a license to do business with them. Both Huawei’s mobile phones and its network equipment rely on American components, including advanced semiconductors. If the ban is applied stringently, it could drive one of China’s most high-profile companies — employing more than 180,000 people — out of business.

That would be a serious mistake. The U.S. has long argued that Huawei poses a national-security threat. And there certainly are legitimate reasons to worry that incorporating Huawei gear into America’s networks will leave them vulnerable both to spying and, in the event of a conflict, sabotage. But the U.S. is already taking other prudent steps to prevent Huawei equipment from being used domestically. Seeking to put the company out of business as well is both disproportionate and deeply unwise.

For one thing, it will impose collateral damage. Blameless companies around the world — including Huawei’s American suppliers — could lose business, face disruptions and incur significant new costs. Allies that have resisted U.S. pressure to shun Huawei’s equipment will resent being backed into a corner: Even if President Donald Trump loosens the noose a bit, they can hardly take the chance that restrictions won’t be re-imposed later. China will only redouble its efforts to produce advanced technologies domestically.

just as he did last year with ZTE Corp. Trump has already invoked national security far too often in pursuing his scattered trade battles. Doing so here would set another terrible precedent while almost certainly backfiring: It will aggravate the current impasse and give Beijing little incentive to abide by any eventual agreement.

Worse, the decision undermines the implicit point of any U.S.-China trade deal: not just to increase commerce but to stabilize relations between the world’s two most powerful nations. While tensions are inevitable, a healthy trading relationship should in theory restore ballast, reminding both sides of the benefits of cooperation and strengthening constituencies that have reason to prefer peace to war. By contrast, targeting Huawei so nakedly will only further marginalize the few moderates in the Chinese leadership and embolden hawks who see conflict as unavoidable. For ordinary Chinese, it will be hard to avoid the impression that the U.S. is simply trying to limit their economic possibilities.

Even on its own terms, finally, this gambit is likely to fail. To be effective, an assault on Huawei would need to be embedded in a larger strategy with a clearer endgame in mind. That’s nowhere in evidence: Is the aim to cripple China’s tech industry? Teach the country its place? Give a boost to non-Chinese suppliers? Provoke a conflict? End one? Without a more focused goal, Trump risks simply alienating U.S. allies, infuriating average Chinese and raising the chances of confrontation, all to no obvious end.

What the U.S. needs is a larger plan that seeks a healthier coexistence with China. That means building up America’s defenses, leveraging its competitive strengths, working with allies to pressure China to conform to global norms, and taking the lead in writing new rules that can constrain its more disruptive behavior. Crushing Huawei, by contrast, simply looks like a strategic miscalculation — and one with potentially disastrous consequences.


Huawei 'Blacklist': Trump and Commerce Make a Serious Mistake - Bloomberg

 

[LeGenD]

Proper explanation in this article: https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-temporary-general-license-988407/

This is temporary relief for Huawei's existing customer base.

"Huawei’s limited license is only in effect through August 19, 2019. The permit allows the company to work with U.S. corporations to support current customers. The Shenzhen-based company will be able to maintain business relationships with Google, Intel, Qualcomm, and others to release software updates to existing hardware.

This 90-day general license is also good news for some smaller regional networks that rely on Huawei’s infrastructure. Two regions that were already affected by the company’s ban were rural areas of Wyoming and Oregon.

The limited license does not mean that all is well between Huawei and the U.S. government. The temporary license only allows the Chinese company to maintain devices that are already on the market. This means that while Huawei can still release security fixes to its electronics, the company will be unable to release new hardware that relies on technology sold or licensed by U.S. companies such as Android.

If the relationship between Huawei and the U.S. doesn’t change, the Entity List’s restrictions will go back into full effect."

In short, buy Huawei's latest and upcoming gadgets at your own risk.

 

[Crystal-Clear]

it was a mistake and it will haunt google and usa .

 

[Kitco]

Wonder when china will cancel orders on Boeing

 

[Mamadouso]

it's already too late, damage done.. now Huawei can't trust western companies. self reliant is the only way to go..

Yes that’s right, otherwise if China doesn’t the the US/Zionist axis will attack again on Chinese companies in a few months. It must be prepared

 

[MM_Haider]

Good business decision by Google ,. Now Huawei will be on its toes .. China has banned google in the country so Google had to take such step ..

 

[zectech]

Apple uses apple app store. Amerika threatens Huawei and China to never use spyware known as google and to stop paying to use android. And moreover to stop using Windows and other Amerikan made spyware. Better for 1.4 billion Chinese to come up with their own ideas and become billionaires competing with google and apple. No longer will the Chinese pay to buy Amerikan products and Amerikan brands, be creative China and dominate the world with Huawei software and Huawei microchips! Stop buying Intel too, another Amerikan company! Amerika to China - 'You better start BDS Amerika or else we will slap on more tariffs on Chinese product!'



IS THIS SOME COMEDY OR WHAT.

 

[Smarana Mitra]

it's already too late, damage done.. now Huawei can't trust western companies. self reliant is the only way to go..

Regardless of whether USA sanctioned or not, indigenous equipment was always the only way to go. It s just that USA is about 5 years ahead of CHina and there is no shortcut in R&D due to which China has to import USA items or use older items of 2010 times which will give lower performance.

The indigenous Chinese Semiconductor fab lithography is 28 nm mosfet . Samsung,Global Foundries,intel ,TSMC are making 10,14,16 nm Finfet.

There will be problems .

10nm is bogus. Intel itself does not have it yet. I don't understand how other companies like TSMC have it when the R&D is done mainly by Intel!! If I am right, the 10nm is just 14nm falsely branded due to different branding methodology by companies. Though, difference betwen 28nm and 14nm is significant and hence there will be problems in battery life and some performance issue. It will be like buying an item of 2010

 

[fitpOsitive]

Yet another major Flip-Flop at national level?

Google reverses decision to cut ties with Huawei after US eases trade restrictions
PUBLISHED TUE, MAY 21 2019 4:57 AM EDTUPDATED 4 HOURS AGO

Sam Meredith@SMEREDITH19

KEY POINTS

• The U.S. Commerce Department announced Monday it had granted a 90-day license for mobile phone companies and internet broadband providers to work with Huawei to keep existing networks online and protect users from security risks.
• The exemption allows Google to send software updates to Huawei phones which use its Android operating system through to August 19.

WATCH NOW
VIDEO06:33
Huawei will stock up on semiconductors, expert predicts



Alphabet Inc’s Google said Tuesday that it plans to work with China’s Huawei over the next 90 days, shortly after the U.S. temporarily eased some trade restrictions on the world’s second-largest smartphone maker.

The move marks a sudden and dramatic turnabout for the U.S. tech conglomerate. On Sunday, Google said it would cut ties with Huawei in order to comply with Washington’s decision to put China’s telecom giant on the so-called Entity List.


However, shortly thereafter, the U.S. Commerce Department announced it had granted a 90-day license for mobile phone companies and internet broadband providers to work with Huawei to keep existing networks online and protect users from security risks.

The exemption allows Google to send software updates to Huawei phones which use its Android operating system through to August 19.

“Keeping phones up to date and secure is in everyone’s best interests and this temporary license allows us to continue to provide software updates and security patches to existing models for the next 90 days,” a Google spokesperson told CNBC in an email on Tuesday.

Temporary general license
The U.S. Commerce Department said it would assess whether to extend the temporary exemptions beyond 90 days.

Late last week, the Commerce Department added Huawei and 68 other entities to an export blacklist, rendering it practically impossible for the Chinese company to purchase goods made in the U.S.


The companies placed on the Entity List are deemed to be engaged in activities that threaten the national security or the foreign policy interests of the U.S.

Monday’s announcement explained the latest authorization had been created as a temporary general license. It allows disclosures of security vulnerabilities and for Huawei to engage in the development of standards for future 5G networks — effectively prompting the firm to become more transparent.

A spokesperson for Huawei declined to comment when contacted by CNBC.

Huawei was the second-largest smartphone maker by global market share in the first quarter. The company has previously laid out its ambitions to become the top player in smartphones by 2020.

Out of the $70 billion Huawei spent buying components in 2018, some $11 billion went to U.S. firms including Qualcomm, Intel and Micron Technology.

Just over 49% of Huawei’s smartphone shipments went to international markets outside of mainland China in the first quarter of 2019, according to Canalys.

— CNBC’s Penny Chen and Reuters contributed to this article.

Google reverses decision to cut ties with Huawei

And people call names to Imran Khan for taking U turns...

 

[zectech]

Amerika to China: BDS Amerika and Made in China 2025 or sooner... is the new foreign policy with Beijing. Amerika does not want business with China. Stop buying Boeing jets and make your own jumbo-jets China, Boeing does not want your business. trump unofficially works for Beijing now.