Today’s technology news includes an interesting press release detailing what could be an important geopolitical partnership between Chinese technology firm Huawei and a business called Moro Hub operating in the United Arab Emirates.
The press release touts a proposed green data center jointly pioneered by these firms.
“Moro Hub aims to help its clients in their sustainability initiatives to reduce their carbon emissions and be carbon neutral while addressing various market demands through our latest offerings,” said His Excellency Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), according to the press release. “The New Cloud Platform provides scalability, reliability, visibility, security with predictable costs, and reduced lead time to deploy. We believe this platform will be a great enabler for developers now more than ever, as organizations are looking at modernizing their legacy applications while achieving sustainability goals.”
What that could mean, in the context of prominent US/China trade conflicts, is that the Chinese government knows how to pivot its international operations to work with modern governments in other areas of the world.
It’s not the first comprehensive technology project that Moro Hub has brought to the gulf state.
Back in September, the company was promoting its smart air and water technology that was aimed at not onlycontrolling air and water for public health and safety, but also monitoring greater ecological impact.
In scrutinizing these types of deals that seem to be in response to US/China tensions, it’s instructive to look back at how treatment of Huawei in the United States is progressing
Currently, Huawei is banned because of the Trump administration’s concerns that the company could use a back door to filter information to the Chinese government.
The Trump administration enforced significant curbs on dozens of Chinese manufacturers over the last two years, including Huawei, ZTE, and more recently SMIC, China’s largest chipmaker,” writes Harish Jonnalagadda at Android Central. “While ZTE was found to have flouted Iran sanctions — which led to its inclusion in the Entity List — there wasn’t any evidence that Huawei was colluding with the Chinese government to install backdoors in its networking equipment.”
That’s displayed evidence that the US NSA has already asked for these types of backdoors in technologies from firms like Apple and Google.
Now, analysts are considering whether a Biden administration would ease some of this tension and reintroduce a certain amount of normalcy to international trade.
“There’s a prevailing sense that Biden will undo most of these changes once he takes office in January,” Jonnalagadda writes. “While the Biden administration will be a return to normalcy in Washington after four years of turmoil that was the Trump presidency, it is unlikely Biden will undo most of the curbs on Chinese brands immediately.”
All of this is of interest to investors who are trying to read the tea leaves and figure out where to put their money in light of current international wranglings. Stay tuned.
