DUBLIN — It looks like the clash of civilisations that observers have been predicting since China started to grow in the 1990s is finally here. Chinese mobile tech giant Huawei is coming under mounting pressure as the US has moved to cut off its access to global markets. According to the Trump administration, Huawei is vulnerable to coercion from the Chinese state to share data (unlike, I suppose, US tech companies and the US government). Trump has been pressuring allies and domestic firms to dump Huawei and it looks like the pressure is working. Google is cutting some Huawei phones off from its full suite of Android services, which may make those phones less attractive to users. China will doubtless retaliate by further protecting its own enormous domestic market, adding fuel to the fire. Unless something changes, we're in for a rough ride as the US and China thrash things out for the next few years. – Felicity Duncan

Google cuts off Huawei smartphones from some Android services

By Dan Strumpf and Yoko Kubota

(The Wall Street Journal) Huawei Technologies Co. has begun to feel the effects of US moves to curb its access to US technology, as Google cut access to some of its Android services on Huawei smartphones and a German chip supplier said it was cutting deliveries to the Chinese giant.

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