Huawei & the Uyghurs — A Story in Trade and Terror
Or ‘The Place of Inconvenient Moral Decision Making in Major Global Trade Relationships’
A 5-Minuter from Wonk Bridge
In some fashionable circles it has become de rigeur to make a point of the Trump administration’s supposed similarities with the CCP of Xi Jinping, as a means of telegraphing the depths to which the office of the American presidency has fallen. Of course, the majority of people who’d broker such a comparison — at least, in the circles to which I refer — do not do so because they think it is correct, but because they enjoy it. It is, after all, partly valid, partly contentious, and partly absurd.
The one thing which most fundamentally differentiates even this most fallen edition of the United States, and an economically-ascendant China, is the Uyghur question. Or, to put it more appropriately, the Uyghur fact. There has been a great deal of controversy sown in China’s relationships with other major global powers in the past several months, this week’s news of the UK government’s refusal to grant 5G installation permits to Huawei the most recent among them.
The most amazing thing about this wealth of controversy — which takes among its dreadnoughts matters no less profound than the ongoing troubles in Hong…
