Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up, the US accuses another Chinese tech firm of spying for Beijing.

Its leadership has long-standing linkages to the Chinese government and military.

The Chinese intelligence community can call upon any company to collaborate in intelligence work. But is Washington's move against

Huawei what it seems? Or is it another shot in a technology arms race that's developing

between the US and China? A leading Chinese investor tells us who

he thinks is winning. US is about two years ahead in technology right now. On the other hand,

Chinese government is doing a lot of things to accelerate the adoption of autonomous vehicles.

That's all to come in Business Daily from the BBC.

Over recent weeks, the Trump administration and China have been engaged in a wide-ranging commercial tug-of-war with the threat of massive trade sanctions.

And most recently, penalties against ZTE.

The Chinese firm has been accused of illegally shipping goods made with US parts

to two countries that are under sanctions, Iran and North Korea.

Now it seems a second Chinese tech giant, Huawei could be in the firing line as well.

Its smartphones are bestsellers in Asia and Europe,

but in the US you'd struggle to find

the latest model because major American carriers like Verizon and AT&T have abandoned the product

amid pressure from Washington. Now congressional leaders on Capitol Hill have introduced legislation

to try and ban Huawei from doing public business in the US altogether, claiming that the

Chinese Communist Party could be manipulating Huawei's software to infiltrate American networks.

Joe Miller has sent us this report from rural Pennsylvania.

It's lunchtime at the saloon bar in Weymart, Pennsylvania, and aside from a few retirees nursing and afternoon beer, and the odd diner making their way through an oversized pizza, not much else is going on.

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