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US Election Spotlight – A Biden Administration might be more conventional in style but the US will remain hawkish on technology in US-China trade relations

The stakes of an election for a United States convulsed by division, cynicism, misery and - in certain instances - open season in the streets have scarcely been so great. The outcome will have global implications too. Four years of President Trump’s half-baked worldview has created myriad problems in international relations and global order. Nowhere has...

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30Oct

Eleições Americanas

O que esperar no dia das eleições? Quando se vão saber os resultados? Qual a relação da nova administração com a Europa? Debate com o embaixador de Portugal em Washington, Jaime Nogueira pinto e Frances Burwell.

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01Jun

Trump’s latest move against Huawei is a pyrrhic victory in the race for AI supremacy. Here’s Why.

May 16th 2020. The Financial Times reported that the Trump Administration has ramped up pressure on Chinese telecoms company, Huawei, by tightening the export controls for US companies providing them with semiconductor technology. “We must amend our rules being exploited by Huawei … and prevent US technologies from enabling malign activities contrary to US national...

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03Feb

China-US: Trade peace or rules of engagement?

The world entered 2020 in financial euphoria, on the back of the trade agreement between China and the United States, after more than a year of advances and setbacks - sometimes frantically advertised firsthand through social networks - which had caused much uncertainty in economic and political terms. And if this initial agreement may become...

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