Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

President Trump takes his fight squarely to China barring its telecoms giant Huawei from doing business with America.

I'll speak with Jim Schutto, author of The Shadow War, a new book about the dangerous conflict

between East and West.

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with Rajkuma, author of the business of changing the world. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. America's

trade war with China just got hotter. President Trump has now signed an

executive order barring US companies from buying telecoms from

sources deemed a national security threat.

Target number one, Huawei, the Chinese giant.

It leads the world in 5G mobile technology, but the United States

and some other Western allies fear that Beijing could be using the company to

spy on them. It is something Huawei's leadership vows never to allow and they say America's

move will do significant harm to American companies. It comes of course just days

after President Trump hiked tariffs on thousands of Chinese imports.

It's increasing the costs for American consumers, but many say it's a necessary battle to rein in China's worst trade practices.

Jim Schutto served under President Obama's Ambassador to Beijing,

and he is the author of a new book, The Shadow War,

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