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The

new Cold War

between the United States and China had a perfect staging in Washington on Monday, with the decision of the US Department of Justice to prosecute two Chinese spies for the alleged bribery of a US official working on the case against the Chinese multinational of Huawei telecommunications.

The case has been announced in great detail, at a press conference given by the heads of the US judicial system, led by the Attorney General (a position equivalent to that of Secretary of Justice), Eric Garland.

The defendants are called

Guochun He and Zheng Wang

, and they reside in China, so if the case ends up in court, it will be 'in absentia'.

The DOJ documents do not cite Huawei, only a Chinese telecommunications company.

The US media have reported that it is the latter.

The US maintains a long confrontation with China over equipment manufactured by Huawei, a world leader in the development of the new data transmission technology known as 5G that will determine the future of the so-called 'internet of things' on which the world economy in the coming decades.

The offensive against Huawei was started by Donald Trump, but Joe Biden has kept it going.

Washington has also managed to get most of its allies to give up having Huawei as

a technology provider in 5G

.

The reason for this decision is that Washington and some other countries consider that Huawei is controlled by the Chinese Armed Forces and, as such, it can be anything from an espionage tool to a sabotage system for all types of critical civil and military infrastructure, including the power grid, nuclear power plants, airports.

The fact that it is practically impossible to know who owns Huawei increases suspicions.

The announcement is

a further escalation in the US technology war

against China, which reached an unusually intense level two weeks ago with the approval by the Joe Biden administration of a regulation that, if carried out, will practically prohibit the collaboration of US companies. with their Chinese counterparts in the development of microprocessors.

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