This government is clear i doubt. We will hold china town for numbers saying isnt it possible to provide a Business Environment for Chinese Companies in britain thats open fair and free from discrimination Telecoms Operators must not buy any 5 different from Funding Companies china or subsidised commerce are started are next to the police is the touchstone of the direction of the post breaks his british market and hes also had the full cost of house a Chinese Investment in greece and he needs. To talk about this is because you said his meeting. Next month. Also coming up tonight france is celebrating its National Holiday bus still day but for many french women president ial politics are reason for condemnation not celebration. And scared if i were the team of sex or violence one day i would have to turn to run by sex as people accused of rape is to ensure i can do to. Them to our viewers on p. B. S. In the united. States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with britains 5 g. Phone network minus the chinese components today the u. K. Government announced plans to ban the chinese tech giant who away from constructing the countrys high speed 5 g. Wireless network it marks a major course change for the u. K. On many levels who away was an equipment provider when the u. K. Built its 2 g. 3 g. And 4 g. Phone networks british prime ministers have hailed who away as proof of strong business ties with china but just as Wireless Phone networks have changed in their power in reach so has china itself who away is the Global Leader in 5 g. Equipment but the u. S. Says allowing a Chinese Company access to Critical Infrastructure such as 5 g. Would be a threat to National Security the c. E. O. Who or what it has said that the company would never engage espionage for beijing but u. S. President donald trump he is not convinced in may the u. S. Imposed sanctions on who way to prevent the company from using american supplied microchips u. K. Lawmakers say that was a game changer making it impossible to guarantee 5 g. Equipment would not become a chinese trojan horse todays decision will no doubt damage relations between wanted to beijing but it will strengthen ties to washington and it marks a major Foreign Policy victory for the trumpet ministration. Speeding up british broadband is a work in progress. Prime minister Barak Johnson wants to boost the network while facing u. S. Pressure to ditch while way tensions between britain and china have escalated over beijings crackdown in hong kong washington says china could use 5 g. For espionage. So it came as a surprise when digital secretary Oliver Dowden said huawei would be purged from the 5 g. Network by 2027. The best way to secure our networks is for operators to stop using new offensive while way to prevent to build a new case future 5 g. Networks so to be clear from the end of this year Telecoms Operators must not buy any 5 g. Equipment from her wallet and once the Telecom Security bill is passed it will be illegal for them to do so. Donald trump at long pushed johnson to reverse a decision he made in january giving huawei a limited role in 5 g. The british raised chinas hackles by signaling that the worlds biggest telecoms equipment maker is no longer welcome in the west china views while way as a National Champion and is certain to retaliate. But since leaving the e. U. Johnson needs to boost trade ties of both the us and china. 5 g. Will become the nervous system of the future economy it will speed up everything from the flow of information on Energy Defense and transport to downloading movies and playing games to accessing Global Financial data. The focus now turns to europe german chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out a ban on huawei she is trying to keep china on side without antagonizing washington d. C. The u. K. Decision on while way makes up balancing act much more challenging. Indeed it does have the talk about that a lot more tonight im joined by ian bremmer hes president of Eurasia Group and media is one of the worlds leading risk assessors he joins me from new york city tonight in its good to have you back on the day so let me ask you he won big today who won or who lost big today and was. Well you know you already made the point in the in your opening segment there this is a win for trump i would argue that what were calling the Technology Cold war between the u. S. And china has probably been the biggest success in Foreign Policy that the Trump Administration has had in 4 years this was not being taken seriously by previous administrations china has made it very clear that they want a war old dominating 5 g. System and ai more broadly under president xi jinping and the United States does not want to see that space theyve made it clear to American Allies that they meet so follow the United States and a western effort to 5 g. Or else there will be consequences and theyve also made it clear to the Chinese Government they intend to impose sanctions financial sanctions product anomic sanctions limit the ability of Companies Like walk away to National Champion in china from being able to access the semiconductors and other critical components would allow them to go to market and youve got countries like the United Kingdom but not only the United Kingdom reading the writing on the wall and they dont love president roughen i love the way he does things god is certainly following the United States here what about the role of the pandemic do you think the u. K. Would have changed course had there been new coronavirus and the bad p. R. That china has attracted because of this. Well id say yes i think the pendant plays a role in a few ways one because of course that the chinese did cover up the initial human to human transmission hurting their own people but also with the World Health Organization and the rest of the world thats led to a backlash from the United States but also from most of the commonwealth countries for example but also i would argue 1 that the pandemic causing the 2 Serious Problems that shes in pain now has internationally you know he wasnt expecting 0 growth this year with 6 percent of g. D. P. Stimulus so even achieve that i think one of the reasons why the china decided to impose this National Security law on hong kong was because of insecurity of chinese leadership domestically that things were going so badly for them they wanted to actually rally around the flag and clearly the hong kong decision and the u. K. s reaction to that was a big part of the huawei decision that it strengthened hawks in the u. K. Parliament and pushed Boris Johnson to act but i would argue that hong kong decision also came as a consequence of the pandemic so when when you see a Global Crisis that is this big you cant really assess any of the decisions that are being made outside of it. I want to talk business for a moment which is take a listen to what the president of europe in Latin America Ericsson said today about the u. K. Decision take a listen decision has been taken out if you like it or not the season is an ounce and then not uncertain it is over and knowledge that britain and the government and operators can really start to declassify deep for the benefit of Consumer Industries enterprises and. Then when it comes. From china again i cant speculate but be habits like in you had over the last few years we had notified 1000 so our dependency on one or one single country is very minimal. Does not sound worried at all there does this decision today mean that business is about to fall into their corporate laps if you will. You know i mean theres no reason for eriksson and nokia to rub this in chinas space but theyre the obvious winners here that theres still a problem and that is that there still isnt a real alternative to chinese 5 g. At the prices that huawei can offer but what the United States is trying to address that theres certainly stressing that ericsson and nokia are trust that suppliers and they are taking measures to start supporting the companies as a strategic alterna for example the United States now offering export credits and financing through the Development Finance corporation starting in brazil and i think you will see that the u. S. Will try to be more strategic in providing support for both ericsson and nokia and and thats sure whether you see trump winning another term or whether biden comes in whats really interesting ringback on this issue compared to almost every other Foreign Policy issue out there is virtually no white between President Trump and former Vice President biden this is a strategic calculation by the Worlds Largest economy you and i have spoken before bell the great decoupling that is taking place between the worlds 2 largest economies is that being excel or really did melt by 5 g. Geopolitics. Absolutely i mean you and i talked about this before the pandemic we discussed it on the sidelines at the Munich Security Council last year and it was very clear that when you talk about anything that has that ship in it anything that involves the transmission of data United States and china are developing separate systems thats not increased globalization its decoupling and i think that decoupling is clearly growing as both sides lean into this fight the chinese are going to be stuff theyll have the largest internal data market in the world but theyre not going to have india and theyre not going to have the rich countries the vast dusty democracies there d instead to have a constellation of some of the poorest countries in the world but do ponder and some of their trade with china but those are countries that also chinas extended a lot of debt and given whats happening with the economic crisis right now theyre not going to be able to repay it so i mean its not quite popular to say in the United States right now but as bad as President Trumps year has been president shushan paynes year has been worse this is this by far the worst year she could imagine since hes become president and you know even though its an authoritarian system hes trying to get rid of term limits right hes up for another term potentially in 2022 i dont think thats a slam dunk right now and i think theres going to be more risk coming out of chinese Political Leadership as a consequence well i mean the u. S. Lapping sinkings over hong kong in sin john youre challenging chinas claims in the South China Sea i mean the u. S. Appears to be putting china back in its in its box if you will or do you think were watching a 21st century cold war take place right before our eyes right now. As i said its a tech cold war that was going to come before we talked about coronavirus but when you talk about a cold war more broadly people immediately think about the americans the soviets the east west blocks and you know i think that in 5 years time if you go to a walmart youre still going to be buying a lot of chinese goods i think if you go to an American University mids here university in 5 years time the Chinese Students foreign students will still be paying a preponderance of the 41000000000. 00 a year that those colleges and universities make thankfully from International Students so i dont think we are talking about the kind of decoupling and 0 sum this in the totality of the u. S. China relationship that we experienced in the height of the cold war but we certainly have what i would say is even leaving aside the tech issues you mention a bunch of others the weaker is the South China Sea on every issue that matters right now between the u. S. And china and i literally mean everyone there deteriorating its heading towards more confrontation and right now given just how much economic challenge and crisis there is inside the United States and inside china i dont see a lot of movement a way towards reaching out a hand and trying to rebuild a little bit of trust thats been gone for some time. Where weve got to i want to ask you a question or 2 about u. S. Politics joe bidens u. S. President ial campaign they have purchased air time in texas and i think its like were talking 6 digit figures here and this is what texans now are about to see and here take a look here the excerpt here. The kids all of you cross texas. Those are rising peace numbers is causing fear never. 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The job i approve this message so you know what we want to be looking at fair texas is a red republican state is judged by a belt to take texas blue you just said it yourself its a 6 figure spend the United States is not canada these a 1000000000. 00 campaigns thats cherry picking i mean yeah of course were going to do some as in some other states and you know they want to put trump on the defensive they want to make them feel scared you know what so this is not new so lets be clear but what is true is that right now biden has a 5. 00 to 10. 00 point lead in the National Polls and in the swing states which is what matters as to whos going to win you should know that its about a 5 point lead so that is certainly with 4 months to go that is hardly definitive but it does mean that it is plausible plausible that biden could win and take the senate and he takes the senate and you get rid of the filibuster and washington d. C. Becomes a skate all of those things are possible right and also the 2 new Democratic Senate seats that is a radically different democrat domestic policy on climate on redistribution taxation on regulatory policy than anything weve seen in a long time and it would shift the balance of power in congress for a generation so as a potential watershed election its true. In burma unfortunately were out of time but always fascinating talking with you we appreciate your time tonight and your insights ian thank you. 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