Published December 7, 2018 We have been seeing news that Huawei Technologies Co. CFO Meng Wanzhou was detained in Canada enroute to Mexico, for possible extradition to USA. It is reported that the Trump Administration was aware of the potential impact on trade talks with China but intent on showing resolve over Chinese companies accused of violating U.S. law. Meng’s arrest is part of an ongoing investigation by U.S. prosecutors into whether Huawei violated banking laws as it sought to evade sanctions against Iran by routing a series of transactions through HSBC Holdings Plc, according to reports in Bloomberg.
Category: US Foreign Policy
NAFTA 2.0 Renegotiations Kickoff – Fair and Favorable to our American Interests needed urgently
Posted before NAFTA Renegotiations started on Aug 15, 2017 Bilateral negotiations between USA, Canada and Mexico are scheduled to start tomorrow to renegotiate NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) which was earlier signed into law in the 1990s. NAFTA was negotiated with the premise that countries in North America had deep relationships and North Americans compete as a block (bound competitiveness). However, in the intervening two decades, we have seen that the business landscape has undergone a sea change since the original NAFTA was negotiated when internet commerce did not exist. In the guise of an Inclusive Trade Agenda,
Confrontation with North Korea – Deja Vu?
Published Aug 12, 2017: This week we had another, by all accounts, successful ICBM Test by North Korea aka DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea), which makes it two in a row. This coupled with separate successful Nuclear Tests in earlier years, has “upped the ante” in in the Korean Peninsula and now has the potential to cross some dangerous “red lines”. It can now be surmised that North Korea is probably working on “miniaturizing” the nuclear warheads to mount them on the cone of the ICBM to perform “integrated tests” of the entire ICBM system in coming months. If / when DPRK