Now app stores are in Biden’s sights
The US government is calling for changes to the way Apple and Google host and promote apps.
The US government is calling for changes to the way Apple and Google host and promote apps.
A couple of Democrat Senators want to make social media companies liable for public health ‘misinformation’ on their platforms.
Apparently buying shares in a company materially helps it, so the US has extended its efforts to starve Chinese companies of investment.
The foreign policy of the Biden Presidency has a distinctly familiar feel to it, with a new executive order designed to boost domestic industry.
New US President Biden is reportedly working on an executive order designed to make various US supply chains less reliant on China.
With the many different forces in play it’s very difficult to accurately project where the equilibrium of the US-China dynamic in the technology and telecoms sectors will go under the Biden administration, or if there will ever be an equilibrium at all.
Another extreme scenario, the opposite to that of going back to the romanticised good days of globalisation, would be a complete parting of ways between the US and China.
With the Biden administration keen to turn back the clock on many policy fronts, it is worth examining what this may mean for the next episode of the USA China rivalry, especially in the technology domains.
Departing US President Trump attempted to push back against selective censorship by social media platforms. They’re less likely to face such resistance from Biden.
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