Avenging Huawei China is formulating its own "unreliable entities list" to target foreign firms. It's most likely a response to the U.S.'s targeting of Huawei, so expect U.S. companies to be the first entries. The big question is what the consequences of being placed on the list will be. Fortune
Huawei Ban U.S. tech firms, such as chipmakers Micron and Intel, have decided there are legal ways to continue supplying Huawei, to an extent, despite the American blacklisting of the Chinese telecoms giant. The loophole? The U.S.-headquartered companies are able to classify their technology as foreign, thanks to their overseas subsidiaries and operations. Bloomberg
Taiwan Arms In a move guaranteed to infuriate Beijing just as trade talks are being tentatively revived, the U.S. State Department has green-lit the potential sale of $2 billion worth of tanks, missiles and other weaponry to Taiwan. The Pentagon said: "This proposed sale serves U.S. national, economic, and security interests by supporting the recipient’s continuing efforts to modernize its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability." Bloomberg
Friday, July 5: Government moves to dismiss Huawei lawsuit: In March, Huawei filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government claiming that the country’s blacklisting of its networking products is illegal. On Wednesday, the U.S. government filed an official motion to have that lawsuit dismissed. What will happen with Huawei next? Stay locked to Android Authority to find out.
Huawei Layoffs Grappling with a blacklisting from the Commerce Department, Huawei Technologies Co. is reportedly planning widespread layoffs in its research and development division in its U.S. offices. That unit employs 850 people in research labs across the country, and employees had reportedly already been struggling with restrictions on communicating with the office in China after the blacklisting. Wall Street Journal
Tanking the trade talks. The U.S. government approved a $2.2 billion arms deal to Taiwan last week and Beijing is not happy. Mainland Chinese authorities have threatened to sanction any U.S. companies that sell weapons to the self-governing island of Taiwan. General Dynamics, for example, makes the Abrams tanks being sold to Taiwan; it also makes Gulfstream private jets, which are a popular toy for the ultra-rich in China. New York Times
Another Blow for Huawei The Trump administration has pushed its penalties against Huawei one step further, with a congressional measure to stop any U.S. government agency from buying Huawei equipment. The measure also covers several other companies: ZTE, Hikvision, Dahua, and Hytera. Huawei is already on a trade-related blacklist, though some restrictions against the company had been pulled back in June. FT
No Google, no buy? Huawei Technologies on Thursday rolled out the Mate 30 series, its latest generation of smartphones. But because of a U.S.-China trade dispute the Chinese telecommunications giant was obliged to offer those phones to consumers in Europe without the capability of accessing Google apps such as Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube and the Google Play store. Wall Street Journal
Google it. Huawei launched its new flagship phone, the Mate 30, last week. It was the first Huawei phone to be delivered without Google services, after the U.S. company was prohibited from working with the Chinese phone maker. Before the launch, a Huawei executive said there would be a workaround that allowed users to download Google apps. Sure enough, a workaround existed: a third-party app called LZ Play allowed Mate 30 users to download Google services but the app was deleted after a researcher discovered LZ Play had access to undisclosed Huawei APIs. Huawei denies any involvement with LZ Play. Engadget