A piece in the South China Morning Post overnight:

  • Huawei will delay sales of its newly launched Mate 30 smartphone series in Europe
  • Citing the US trade ban that bars access to Google apps and services
  • Huawei will promote its own Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem, in lieu of Google's own system, to support users in China

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Further less than optimistic reports in the SCMP on the trade war include comments from a trade adviser to Donald Trump:

  • "Does the president have options to escalate the trade war? Yes, the tariffs can be raised higher. These are low level tariffs that could go to 50 percent or 100 percent"

That's Michael Pillsbury, an outside trade adviser to Trump, said in an interview cited by SCMP.

Earlier on this here

A piece in the South China Morning Post  overnight: