Huawei: is there a tech cold war?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In the Canadian city of Vancouver a woman named Meng Wanzhou is under house arrest in her $4.2bn mansion. Chief financial officer of the Chinese tech firm Huawei, and the founder’s daughter, she’s accused by the US of bank fraud and violating sanctions against Iran. But as the BBC’s Silicon Valley Reporter Dave Lee tells Beyond Today, her arrest is about more than this: we might look back on it as the opening salvo in the tech cold war. Reporter: Harriet Noble Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Tina Dehealy.
0:07.8	Welcome to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:10.6	where we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today is there a tech cold war.
0:27.0	Harrier, I've been away since last Wednesday, skiing.
0:35.0	We've missed you very much.
0:36.0	I've had a digital detox. I don't really know what's been going on in the world.
0:40.0	What have I missed?
0:41.0	Well, yesterday, afternoon, my time, first thing in the morning for him.
0:46.0	Hey Harriet, sorry I'm slightly late.
0:48.0	Don't worry.
0:49.0	I got to talk to my neighbour about how frequently the rubbish is taken out here.
0:52.0	I had a really interesting conversation with Dave Lee.
0:56.1	I am the BBC Silicon Valley reporter or North American technology reporter as it sometimes referred to.
1:02.8	So I cover pretty much every technology twist that happens in this part of the world.
1:07.9	He was at home in San Francisco.
1:10.4	But I'll be going to the court in Vancouver to hear the first of what will be many hearings related to
1:16.8	Mung one Joe in this case.
1:19.1	Who is Mung one Joe?
1:22.3	She is the chief financial officer of Huawei, the Chinese mobile phone company and in
1:28.6	December she was arrested in Canada at the request of the US who have accused her of fraud and
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