This article seems to make some pretty big, unsubstantiated claims. ie "America’s spies hijacked the Trump Administration’s trade agenda and turned into a glob

This article seems to make some pretty big, unsubstantiated claims. ie "America’s spies hijacked the Trump Administration’s trade agenda and turned into a global campaign against Huawei. This has been a humiliating failure." They also mention Huawei's founder's interview with the economist: "...in an interview with The Economist:" However The Economist link routes to another asia times article that does not mention The Economist anywhere. My limited understanding is that quantum cryptography is still a relatively nascent field, and unlikely to be production ready for the roll out of 5G networks (though, admittedly, I could be wrong about this). In one of the linked to articles (https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/07/article/us-china-tech-war-and-the-us-intelligence-community/ https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/07/article/us-china-tech-war-...) they say "The ultimate form of data security is quantum communications, an application of physics that China has pioneered." and link to https://www.insidescience.org/news/china-leader-quantum-communications https://www.insidescience.org/news/china-leader-quantum-comm... which describes a set of events that don't seem to be corroborated by any reputable publication, and don't appear in the wikipedias or publications of the scientists mentioned (despite descriptions of similar, more experimental demonstrations) I'm not familiar with the Asia Times but this article (and others they link to), at least, seem propaganda-y?