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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (178293)	9/14/2021 5:05:25 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218140

<<China>> appears demure, or busy, or just cannot be bothered … Bonnie Glaser is likely wrong, imo, for I reckon China has just one-ask of USA, and is simply not yet ready to ask. ft.com Joe Biden’s suggestion of summit with Xi Jinping falls on deaf ears US president proposed face-to-face meeting in call last week but Chinese leader did not respond 17 minutes ago Joe Biden, then US vice-president, and Chinese president Xi Jinping toast during a state luncheon in Washington in 2015 © AFP via Getty ImagesJoe Biden suggested he hold a face-to-face summit with Chinese president Xi Jinping during a 90-minute call last week but failed to secure an agreement from his counterpart, leading some US officials to conclude that Beijing is continuing to play hardball with Washington. The US president proposed to Xi that the leaders hold the summit in an effort to break an impasse in US-China relations, but multiple people briefed on the call said the Chinese leader did not take him up on the offer and instead insisted Washington adopt a less strident tone towards Beijing. The White House had portrayed the call — which took place at Biden’s request seven months after their first telephone conversation — as a chance to test if Xi was willing to engage seriously after several diplomatic meetings between US and Chinese officials garnered little progress. Five people briefed on the call said that while Xi had used less abrasivelanguage than his top diplomats had done this year, his overall message to Biden was that the US must tone down its rhetoric. Biden has taken a harsh line on China, criticising its treatment of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, its crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and its military activity around Taiwan. Beijing has responded by accusing the Biden administration of interfering in China’s core strategic interests. It may be politically risky for Xi to engage with President Biden without certainty that he can get something from Biden - Bonnie Glaser, German Marshall Fund A sixth person familiar with the situation said Biden had floated the summit as one of several possibilities for follow-on engagement with Xi, and that the US president had not expected an immediate response. One US official briefed on the conversation said that while Xi did not engage with the idea of a summit, the White House believed this was partly due to concerns about Covid-19. Xi has not left China since he went to Myanmar in early 2020 before the outbreak of the pandemic. The US had considered the G20 gathering in Italy in October for a possible summit, but Chinese media have suggested that Xi may not attend. He will also not attend the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation meeting this week in Tajikistan, where China, Russia, India, Pakistan and central Asian countries will discuss Afghanistan. Another person familiar with the Biden-Xi call said it was conceivable that the Chinese president just did not want to commit at this particular point in time. A different person said it was possible that the two sides could agree to a video call — a step up from a phone call — around the time of the G20. But three people said the US was disappointed with Xi’s apparent lack of interest in a summit. Chinese accounts of the call emphasised that it had been initiated by Biden, and quoted Xi as saying that US policies had caused “serious difficulties”. They also noted that the US “looks forward to more discussions and co-operation” with China, in language that implied Washington was pushing harder for engagement than Beijing. A day after the call, the Financial Times reported Biden was considering allowing Taiwan to change the name of its office in the US, from Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office to “Taiwan Representative Office. The report prompted an angry response from China, which fears that such a name change would bolster Taiwan’s claim to be a sovereign country. Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, said it was difficult to interpret Xi’s reluctance to hold an in-person summit. “It may be politically risky for Xi to engage with President Biden without certainty that he can get something from Biden. He may calculate that it is safer to only have interactions in this period at lower levels,” Glaser said. “But there is also the Covid factor, and we don’t know how much weight to attach to that.” Follow Demetri Sevastopulo on Twitter Sent from my iPad

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (178293)	9/15/2021 4:38:30 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218140

Spirited, and still going strong, very extremely gamey, definitely an army engineer, and onward to 6G No video games, payment systems, social media anything, just make stuff, for common prosperity. bloomberg.com Founder Says Huawei ‘More United Than Ever’ After U.S. Blacklist 15 September 2021, 08:00 GMT+8 Huawei Technologies Co. has gained strength through the years of U.S. sanctions and is ready to pay more for talent, aiming to lead the race in next-generation telecom technologies after 5G, founder and Chief Executive Officer Ren Zhengfei said. In an internal talk last month, Ren dismissed the notion that the U.S. blacklist has defeated the Chinese telecommunications giant. “There has been no chaos within the company,” the 76-year-old said, according to a transcript of the conversation. “Instead, the company is now more united than ever, and has even attracted more talent.” Still, Huawei’s recent financial results show the company is struggling. The Shenzhen-based company posted a 38% decline in sales in the second quarter, the sharpest revenue drop since Washington cut it off from key chipsets and American technologies from semiconductor design tools to Google’s latest Android system for smartphones. Huawei clinched a major 5G equipment procurement deal from a top Chinese telecom operator in July, indicating it has managed to keep the core telecom gear business running. It also released a marquee smartphone but failed to arm it with fifth-generation, or 5G, capabilities due to lack of chip supply. The company has been trying to find a new source of profit to maintain operations and is seeking to create new businesses in smart mining and electronic vehicles. It also started to request patent royalties from other smartphone makers and sold a smartphone brand, Honor, to a Chinese consortium late last year for an unspecified amount. Ren is counting on the research team to help Huawei recover from what may be the strongest sanctions the U.S. has ever placed on a single company. In the talk, he pledged to hire the best talent around the world with higher pay than that offered by rivals. “Built on this R&D system, we will not only lead the world in 5G, more importantly, we will aim to lead the world in wider domains,” he said. Once an army engineer before creating Huawei, Ren is pointing toward the next generation of wireless technology. The 6G technology, he told his employees, “might be able to detect and sense” beyond higher data transmission capabilities in the current technologies. “We must not wait until 6G becomes viable, as waiting would impose constraints on us due to a lack of patents,” he said. — With assistance by John Liu, and Yuan Gao Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (178293)	9/15/2021 6:06:04 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218140

You mean minority partners.. Live and learn

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (178293)	9/17/2021 9:36:10 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218140

spot the take-away message bloomberg.com UN Chief Says China, U.S. Should Repair ‘Dysfunctional’ Ties David Wainer 18 September 2021, 05:12 GMT+8 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the U.S. and China need to find common cause on climate, trade and technology even as they disagree on issues like human rights and the South China Sea. Guterres said in an interview Friday with Bloomberg News that the nations need to work urgently on improving ties by creating separate tracks on issues where collaboration between the global powers is essential. In the recent past there’s been “no serious negotiation” on anything and “there are very important things that need to be put on the table,” he said. “It is essential that relations between China and the U.S. become functional because at the present moment they are totally dysfunctional,” he said. “And that, of course, has an impact on the capacity to solve many of the problems we have.” Guterres, a 72-year-old former prime minister of Portugal, has struggled to forge diplomatic compromises for some of the world’s hot spots amid deepening rifts between the U.S. and its key rivals, Russia and China. Re-elected to a second five-year term earlier this year, he has focused instead on uniting the world behind efforts to combat climate change and environmental collapse. Guterres spoke as more than 100 world leaders were expected to arrive for the annual UN General Assembly this year. Heads of state scheduled to attend the Sept. 20-27 debate include U.S. President Joe Biden, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Among the no-shows are Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping, who regularly skip the UN event, as well as France’s Emmanuel Macron and Ebrahim Raisi, the new president of Iran. Climate PledgesGuterres and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host an informal, closed-door meeting on Monday in an effort to get countries to agree on bolder commitments to curb climate change. Ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland in November, leaders from the world’s largest emitters, including the U.S., China and Australia, as well as small island states confronted by rising sea levels have been invited to take part. “The meeting is a wake-up call,” Guterres said. “We are on the verge of a disaster, and there is a risk of a real failure for COP26,” he said. Why Latest Thinking on Global Warming Rings Alarms: QuickTake Countries’ current emission-cutting plans indicate there’s little chance that the world can avoid global warming rising above levels needed to avert more catastrophic weather events, according to a recent United Nations report. More than 70 countries -- including India and China -- have yet to submit revised proposals. The pressure on countries like India to commit to a net-zero emissions target is high, with China having announced its own program for 2060. India has been reluctant to commit to a timeline and has instead urged G-20 nations to make a pledge focused on per-capita emissions. “Emerging economies also need to commit to more,” Guterres said in the interview. “Until now emerging economies aren’t being ambitious enough.” Afghanistan ‘Waivers’On Afghanistan, Guterres called on global powers to help ease its economic crisis by allowing for “waivers” to get around sanctions on the Taliban militants who now control the government, some of whom are designated terrorists. He said it isn’t about recognizing the Taliban, which have a long history of human rights abuses, particularly against women and girls. “It’s not a solution to completely strangle Afghanistan,” he said, adding that “we will need waivers” for travel and “mechanisms in order to inject cash in the country.” “If the Afghan economy collapses it will be a disaster for the Afghan people, and we will see a massive exodus,” he said. The Taliban sought additional humanitarian aid from the the international community just after the UN raised more than $1.2 billion in emergency pledges earlier this week. Global leaders are planning to discuss Afghanistan on the sidelines of the UNGA event. Biden plans to host a virtual summit on Wednesday that will focus on concrete measures to bring the pandemic to an end. He will call on world leaders to collectively donate one billion Covid-19 vaccines with the aim of inoculating 70% of the world in the next year as many countries struggle to obtain shots. “We need to have a global vaccination plan, which implies double production capacity,” Guterres said, saying it’s unfathomable that in some countries in Africa less than 2% of the population is vaccinated even as rich countries have a majority of their populations inoculated. “Wherever there is capacity to produce vaccines, vaccines should be produced.” (Updates with additional comments starting in third paragraph) Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE