The US wants to stop a Chinese company buying chips from a Taiwanese company? The problem the US has is that it has blatantly conflated national security with

The US wants to stop a Chinese company buying chips from a Taiwanese company? The problem the US has is that it has blatantly conflated national security with economic interest. Now we've got no idea whether Huawei is a genuine threat or whether America would just prefer you buy American. The UK was a great example - even one of the US's closest allies isn't excluding Huawei from 5G infrastructure. If there was actually a clear national security threat and the US was acting reasonably, its allies would be backing it and we might actually see a unified resistance to potential Chinese espionage. Instead the world is pretty much unified in seeing this as another one of Donald Trump's fantastic negotiating ploys where he alienates all his allies, sacrifices key objectives needlessly and then claims victory anyway.