Day: May 6, 2020

👀 Exclusive: U.S. drafts rule to allow Huawei and U.S. firms to work together on 5G standards – sources

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Exclusive: U.S. drafts rule to allow Huawei and U.S. firms to work together on 5G standards – sources

After nearly a year of uncertainty, the department has drafted a new rule to address the issue, two sources told Reuters. The rule, which could still change, essentially allows U.S. companies to participate in standards bodies where Huawei is also a member, the sources said.

The draft is under final review at the Commerce Department and, if cleared, would go to other agencies for approval, the people said. It is unclear how long the full process will take or if another agency will object.

“As we approach the year mark, it is very much past time that this be addressed and clarified,” said Naomi Wilson, senior director of policy for Asia at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), which represents companies including Amazon.co Inc, Qualcomm Inc and Intel Corp.

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⁉️ CORONAVIRUS SURVIVORS ‘PERMANENTLY DISQUALIFIED’ FROM JOINING U.S. MILITARY, RECRUITMENT MEMO SUGGESTS

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CORONAVIRUS SURVIVORS ‘PERMANENTLY DISQUALIFIED’ FROM JOINING U.S. MILITARY, RECRUITMENT MEMO SUGGESTS

The ban may also result from limited research on COVID-19, as there's still much that's unknown about the virus, the permanence and assessment of its damage on the lungs and body, whether the virus can reemerge in those who've seemingly recovered from it, and whether prior infection makes a person more immune or susceptible to catching it again.
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Does NATO have a Future?

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Does NATO have a Future?

The views expressed by European news sources were confirmed in the recent speech given by Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, who admitted that due to the Coronavirus pandemic, undoubtedly, military budgets of Alliance member states would be cut. Still, in order to stop this from happening, he again began to promote his favorite viewpoint that the threat from Russia had supposedly not diminished during the press conference at the end of the Meeting of NATO Ministers of Defense in Brussels. It thus seemed as if the Secretary General was hoping to attract additional funding for the Alliance. He also deliberately failed to mention that it was not NATO but instead its so-called rival power, Russia, which during the difficult times for many nations, including NATO member states, responded not with threats but by providing humanitarian aid to a number of European nations being ravaged by the Coronavirus pandemic in the form of military doctors and medical equipment.