Spændingen mellem USA og Kina er blevet optrappet den seneste tid, ikke mindst i weekenden, hvor USA’s handelsrådgiver og Kina-høg beskyldte Kina for at skjule krisen og sendte hundredtusinder af kinesere til Europa og USA for at sprede smitten. USA har også lagt nye restriktioner på Huawei.
Uddrag fra Danske Bank:
The US-China tensions continued to rise on Friday and over the weekend. Over the weekend, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, a long-time China hawk, accused China of hiding the virus and ‘then sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese on aircraft to Milan, New York and around the world to seed that’. Also over the weekend, China said that it will take ‘all necessary measures’ to protect Huawei after the Trump administration announced new restrictions on Huawei on Friday (for more details on the restrictions please see NY Times).
This is a clear indication that, despite the US-China phase-1 trade deal, the tech war between the two countries is far from over, which only adds to the already high degree of uncertainty in the world economy.
