Donald Trump
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                    The province of Ontario will cancel Starlink’s licence to operate in a tit-for-tat if US President Trump introduces 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada.
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                    President Trump has unveiled plans to introduce hefty tariffs on semiconductors made in Taiwan to encourage chip manufacturers to bring production to the US.
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                    Elon Musk has taken a swipe at OpenAI over its involvement in Project Stargate, claiming the ChatGPT maker “don’t actually have the money”.
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                    President Trump has revoked President Biden’s AI Executive Order as part of a day-one purge of his predecessor’s policies.
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                    President Donald Trump has appointed Olivia Trusty as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s newest commissioner.
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                    Capacity explores Trump's tech agenda, from CHIPS Act to FCC shakeups and AI policy reversals
 
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            Broadband operators in the US paid research companies to generate 18 million fake emails to the telecoms regulator and half a million fake letters to Congress, the New York attorney general is claiming.
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            Huawei’s business everywhere but China has slumped following the US embargo on the company, according to today’s annual report.
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            The new US president is suspending actions started by the former Trump administration against Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat.
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            As the Biden-Harris administration comes into power at noon Eastern Time today, leaders in the telecoms industry have told Capacity what their priorities should be.
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            BlackRock has filed documents that confirm it is selling part of its stake in China Telecom for US$200 million.
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            The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) yesterday flipped back to its original plan, announced a few days ago, to delist the shares of China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom.
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            IBM has appointed Gary D. Cohn as its new vice chairman and member of the IBM executive leadership team.
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            Outgoing US president Donald Trump has taken action to ban the use in the country of Chinese e-commerce services including Alipay and WeChat.
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            The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has halted its plan to delist the shares of China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom.
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            Ajit Pai is to leave the US telecoms and media regulator, which he has chaired since 2017, on the day Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump as president.
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            US president-elect Joe Biden has appointed Mignon Clyburn, a former acting chair of the US regulator, to his telecoms transition team.
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            Losing the US election hasn’t stopped Donald Trump from taking further shots at China in recent days.