Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Today, for the first time since 2003, America plans to carry out an execution mandated at the federal, rather than the state level.

The Trump administration favors the death penalty, but even the older conservatives who once supported it are having second thoughts.

And, any homo-declonate composed hundreds of film scores over the past 50 years.

But it was the movies he made with Seb Giuliani that showed how rather than a musical afterthought, soundtracks could be central to a film's story and its feel.

First up though.

This week, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to reverse a decision he made in January to allow the Chinese telecom giant Huawei to build part of the country's 5G network.

The British public deserve to have access to the best possible technology.

Now, if people oppose one brand or another, then they have to tell us what's the alternative.

Britain has come under enormous pressure from its biggest ally, America, which sees Huawei as a security threat.

It's not the only Chinese firm that America views with suspicion.

Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News the government was considering banning the social media app TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese firm Bydance.

We're certainly looking at it. I don't want to get out in front of the president, but it's something we're looking at.

Would you recommend that people download that app on their phones tonight, tomorrow, anytime, currently?

Only if you want your private information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.

And American firms are caught, too, in the geopolitical tensions between the world's two biggest economies.

Google, Microsoft, and Twitter all said they would stop cooperating with Hong Kong's authorities for the time being because of a sweeping new security law there imposed by Beijing.

It all adds up to what's being called a new Cold War fought on a digital battleground.

For the last three or four years, people have talked about the tech Cold War.

Patrick Fowles is the economist's business affairs editor.

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