The White House reported that Joe Biden “warned” Xi Jinping against supporting Russia, threatening “consequences”, but the Wall Street Journal did not make the headline, unlike other non-economic Americans.
And the Financial Times even made the headline that it was Xi who “warned” Biden against “indiscriminate sanctions” on Russia. Below, the financial newspaper noted that India’s purchases of Russian oil had “quadrupled” despite warnings from the White House.
In the same direction, questioning the effectiveness of threats and sanctions, the WSJ published a section on the results — the lack of them — in the measures against China in 5G, an American priority for more than three years.
The siege of Huawei and other Chinese companies has not resulted in the expected domestic advances. In the notebook’s headline, “What’s holding back 5G”, highlighting the “technical difficulties”. In particular, the resistance of US regulators due to the alleged risk to “air safety”.
As former Google president Eric Schmidt published in an article shortly before in the WSJ itself, “China’s 5G flies over America’s 5G” (illustration above).
According to the special section, “China leads” or “shows the way with 5G networks” that range from coal mines, with remotely operated drillers, to ports, with containers processed online, and in particular “the so-called smart factories”.
On several fronts, the effort of Chinese companies, with government support, is to “automate intensive or dangerous work processes”, increasing productivity and lowering costs.
As for Donald Trump and Biden’s main target in what has been called the trade war, the WSJ shows “Huawei’s software business boom” in services like cloud.
What the newspaper omits is that the pressure against the Chinese giant has failed in some of the largest emerging markets. According to the FT, billionaire Carlos Slim announced that 5G coverage already extends to 18 cities in Mexico and will reach 120 by the end of the year. With Huawei.
In Brazil, according to sector vehicles such as Teletime, Huawei and the operator TIM announced Curitiba as the first chosen for the 5G City project, which will establish “smart cities” in the country.
INTOLERANCE
While he still finds space in outlets like the Economist (above) to air his view that the war “is the fault of the West”, political scientist John Mearsheimer, already under attack in the press, has become the target of a petition by students at the University of Chicago, where he teaches.
They accuse him of “spreading Putinism” and demand from the university “a declaration that does not tolerate anti-Ukrainian ideology on campus”.
