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There’s been a lot of action around the China-US relationship in the last few hours.
The UK announced that it would be stripping Huawei technology out of the country’s 5G network by 2027 yesterday, a move which last night Donald Trump appeared to claim credit for, saying:
We confronted untrustworthy Chinese technology and telecom providers. We convinced many countries – many countries – and I did this myself, for the most part – not to use Huawei because we think it’s an unsafe security risk. It’s a big security risk. I talked many countries out of using it. If they want to do business with us, they can’t use it. Just today, I believe that UK announced that they’re not going to be using it. And that was up in the air for a long time, but they’ve decided.
12.09pm BST
Lloyd Green has written for us this morning, looking at how the emergence of the Covid-19 has destabilised Trump’s plans for healthcare, and how he finds himself at odds with some of his base in trying to end Obamacare in the midst of a pandemic.
The fact that 5.4 million people have already lost their health insurance amid the pandemic does not even register as a blip on the administration’s radar. Trump’s stance appears to be more about keeping the Republican donor-base happy than winning votes. When rocked-ribbed Oklahomans recently backed Medicaid expansion, it is time for Trump and his minions to rethink things. In other words, conservative America is not exactly craving Republican economic orthodoxy. But the Republican party’s big-ticket contributors still do.
Related: Healthcare is Trump’s Achilles heel. Republicans don’t get it | Lloyd Green
Continue reading…Video from bodycams of two officers available for public viewing by appointment – media banned from publishingTrump inaccurately argued white Americans are dying more often at hands of police than Black AmericansOfficer brutalized woman during minor traffic stop, then took her to jailSign up to our First Thing newsletter 12.21pm BSTThere’s been a lot of action around the China-US relationship in the last few hours. The UK announced that it would be stripping Huawei technology out of the country’s 5G network by 2027 yesterday, a move which last night Donald Trump appeared to claim credit for, saying:We confronted untrustworthy Chinese technology and telecom providers. We convinced many countries – many countries – and I did this myself, for the most part – not to use Huawei because we think it’s an unsafe security risk. It’s a big security risk. I talked many countries out of using it. If they want to do business with us, they can’t use it. Just today, I believe that UK announced that they’re not going to be using it. And that was up in the air for a long time, but they’ve decided. 12.09pm BSTLloyd Green has written for us this morning, looking at how the emergence of the Covid-19 has destabilised Trump’s plans for healthcare, and how he finds himself at odds with some of his base in trying to end Obamacare in the midst of a pandemic.The fact that 5.4 million people have already lost their health insurance amid the pandemic does not even register as a blip on the administration’s radar. Trump’s stance appears to be more about keeping the Republican donor-base happy than winning votes. When rocked-ribbed Oklahomans recently backed Medicaid expansion, it is time for Trump and his minions to rethink things. In other words, conservative America is not exactly craving Republican economic orthodoxy. But the Republican party’s big-ticket contributors still do. Related: Healthcare is Trump’s Achilles heel. Republicans don’t get it | Lloyd Green Continue reading…