Dong Yifan, an assistant research fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the Beijing-based China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, said Huawei has been facing increasing pressure from the United States and some of its allies in Europe, due to so-called national security concerns.

总部位于北京的中国当代国际关系研究院欧洲研究所助理研究员董一凡表示，由于所谓的国家安全问题，华为一直面临着来自美国及其欧洲一些盟友越来越大的压力。

So we position ourselves as the 'natural ally' of reform and opening-up and fend off so-called de-coupling," he said.

因此，我们将自己定位为改革开放的‘天然盟友’，并抵制所谓的去耦合，”他说。

Trailing behind the development of a CD47 drug that has reached phase 3 study at clinical-stage immuno-oncology company Forty Seven Inc, which Gilead took over earlier this year, the Nasdaq-listed I-Mab has been reportedly looking for months for a powerful ally to speed up its own program.

Hours later, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab made a statement in Parliament, in which he sought to reassure allies in the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing community, which include the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

"By excluding Huawei and other "high-risk vendors" from the core of network infrastructure, the UK is telling the US and other allies that have banned Huawei that their voices have been heard.

Hours later, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab made a statement in Parliament, in which he sought to reassure allies in the so-called Five Eyes intelligence sharing community, which include the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

"By excluding Huawei and other "high-risk vendors" from the core of network infrastructure, the UK is telling the US and other allies who have banned Huawei that their voices have been heard.

At the same time, Europe is where most of the US government's allies are located and Washington is intensifying push to dissuade them from including Huawei on 5G plans.

All these figures seem to buck those groundless speculations that Huawei's products contain "back doors" or security risks, for which the US government has been persuading its allies not to use the company's (Huawei's) equipment, experts said.

"Consideration must be given to the UK's ongoing cooperation with its major allies," Lamb said.

French President Emmanuel Macron watched as France and Germany unveiled a sleek, dagger-shaped mockup of a new fighter plane the two close European allies plan to develop.

Huawei is the largest of them, but the company is under scrutiny after the United States said that it would not use Huawei equipment because of security fears, and it encouraged its allies to follow suit.

The UK security services have spent months reviewing Huawei's operations after allies of Britain, including the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, effectively banned Huawei kit for what they said were security concerns.

Several members of Parliament have expressed concern that giving the company the green light risks eroding the trust of allies in the intelligence community.

Some of Britain's allies, including the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, have effectively banned Huawei from bidding for 5G contracts due to security concerns.

The Daily Telegraph reported that the UK government came to the decision on Tuesday, ending months of speculation over whether the UK would follow several of its allies in banning Huawei from domestic 5G contracts.

The United States has put pressure on allies to ban the use of Huawei 5G kit due to security concerns.

"China and the US as close allies (makes for) a very safe world; China and the US having major differences is a different kind of world," he said.

Senior US officials have recently kept telling American allies that using Huawei equipment would undermine their national security, and could also affect their partnership with the US.

Some Canadian allies have imposed restrictions, citing the risk of espionage.

The United Kingdom’s reported conclusion that any alleged risk from using Huawei equipment is manageable is expected to help the Chinese company secure more votes of confidence from European countries, dealing a blow to US efforts to discourage its allies from using the company’s products in 5G telecom networks, experts said on Monday.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday criticized the United States and its allies, saying it was suppressing and slandering Chinese companies over national security concerns without providing any evidence.

Hard on the heels of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who on Monday warned allies that embracing Huawei technologies may jeopardize their partnerships with Washington, US Vice-President Mike Pence praised Poland on Wednesday, for "protecting the telecoms sector from China".

The company also entered the US market earlier this year with the backing of two key local allies - chipmaking giant Qualcomm and mobile operator T-Mobile.

"We need to decide the extent to which we are going to be comfortable with Chinese ownership of these technologies and these platforms in an environment where some of our allies have taken quite a definite position," Younger said from an event in Scotland.

They pointed out that escalating tariff threats and the potential of trade wars with US trading partners, including with some of the country's most important allies, create uncertainty that will be felt by Americans across the country and by businesses of all sizes and across all industry sectors.

"Global benchmark Brent crude averaged 21 percent higher in 2017 than the year before as OPEC and its allies cut output.

Shenhua can improve its coal-dominated energy mix by advancing into clean energy segments such as renewable energy and nuclear energy, while Guodian can benefit from a powerful ally in the coal sector, to fend off risks to supplies and prices, he said.

"With this new flight to Chengdu the major hub for Air China, which is our ally and star alliance partner, passengers from Ethiopian Airlines' vast and growing network, will be able to connect to dozens of cities in China, including Shenzhen, Kunming, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Changsha and Urumqi, similarly Chinese travelers will enjoy faster travel and connection to more than 54 countries and further to Sao Paulo, Brazil and the US with minimum layover in Addis Ababa Hub," explained Awol.

In fact, the US is also promoting "friend-shoring", partnering with its Western political and economic allies to offer competitive alternatives to China and undermining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Belt and Road Initiative, which have significantly benefited many developing countries.

When the US and its allies impose strict technological restrictions on China and monopolize the setting of standards in emerging and critical technologies, they often use Western values as a lever.

"Measures to curb China risk damaging relations with its Asian allies," former chip engineer and Samsung executive Yang Hyang-ja was quoted as saying by the Financial Times.

"Washington needs to adjust its strategy of pressuring allies to suppress China's semiconductor industry, eliminate extra tariffs imposed on Chinese products and establish a regular communication mechanism with Beijing," Zhang said.

Experts said it is the US that has disrupted global chip supply chains by imposing a slew of chip export control measures against China and by pressuring its allies such as the Netherlands and Japan to adopt similar moves.

These actions have not only compromised the interests of its allies but also coerced and influenced other countries to suppress China's presence in the semiconductor industry.

China will resolutely object if the United States coerces its allies to restrict investment in China, the country's Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.

In particular, the US has strengthened its efforts to ally with other countries to curb the development of China's chip industry.

Their communique did not mention China by name, but the supply chain language fit in with "friend-shoring" efforts championed by Yellen and other Western leaders to trade more with allies and become less reliant on the Asian manufacturing powerhouse for battery minerals, semiconductors and other strategic goods, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

After World War II, the United States and its Western allies attempted to control policy-making and agenda-setting in post-war global economy, leading in establishing such institutions as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

On Tuesday, Dutch Foreign Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher told lawmakers that the Netherlands will make its own decision regarding Dutch company ASML's chip gear sales to China amid trade rule talks with the US and other allies, Bloomberg reported.

Arguments about supposed demographic decline are now playing out against the backdrop of intensified strategic competition with the United States and its allies, as well as India, where the population is expected to increase faster.

The US may try to persuade its allies not to sell technology products and services to China.

It also suggested that the administration "immediately remove Section 232 tariffs and quotas on steel and aluminum", which affect China as well as many US allies.

In an interview with The New York Times early last month, the president-elect said that first he wanted to conduct a full review of the existing agreement with China and consult with US traditional allies, "so we can develop a coherent strategy".

OPEC and its allies, a group known as OPEC+, announced on June 4 that they would deepen production cuts throughout 2024 by slashing another 1.393 million barrels of crude oil production each day.

Dutch Foreign Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher told lawmakers last month that the Netherlands would make its own decision regarding Dutch company ASML's chip gear sales to China amid trade rule talks with the US and other allies.

Chinese soccer aficionados who are unable to travel to Qatar to experience all the exciting action at the stadiums, have found in technology an able ally, which somewhat compensated for missing out on all that fun, industry watchers said.

Market observers attributed the share surge to the decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, a group known as OPEC+, to cut oil production from November to bolster oil prices that have tumbled recently over recession fears.

South Korean online news publisher Business Korea recently reported that the US government proposed setting up a semiconductor industry alliance with its allies, including South Korea and Japan, to keep the Chinese mainland's fledgling semiconductor industry at bay.

The reiteration of houses' foremost function shows the Chinese leadership's resolve not to make property a short-term economic stimulus tool but ensure it functions as a long-term ally of high-quality development, industry observers said.

That has in part propelled platforms like QQ to ally with hanfu merchants in the grand game.

Xinhua citied an energy analyst at Commerzbank Research as saying the positive sentiment came from vaccine news, which was making the market increasingly confident that the economy would gradually normalize, and that an agreement at next week's meeting of OPEC and its allies (OPEC+) will be reached.

NEW YORK -- Oil prices advanced on Thursday as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies stressed importance of compliance with output cuts quotas.

Forming these friendships and partnerships with key Chinese allies is the first step toward more economic opportunities," he said.

"Therefore, we decided to form an ally to consolidate the resources and human resources of libraries in the country to develop an IP. "

It was 5 pm, and Saada Masood Ally Seif, a Tanzanian passenger in her 20s, was waiting in the departure hall of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, though her flight would not take off for seven hours.

"The US government relaxing its curbs on the Chinese semiconductor sector reflects that its attempts to find allies in other countries to contain China's high-tech industry have failed, pushing it to reexamine the impact of its trade policy on China," said Xiang Ligang, director-general of the Information Consumption Alliance, a telecommunications industry association in China.

"Measures to curb China risked damaging relations with its Asian allies," former chip engineer and Samsung executive Yang Hyang-ja was quoted as saying by the Financial Times.

And we urge the administration to refrain from further restrictions until it engages more extensively with industry and experts to assess the impact of current and potential restrictions to determine whether they are narrow and clearly defined, consistently applied, and fully coordinated with allies," the statement says.

The association asked the US government to engage "more extensively with industry and experts to assess the impact of current and potential restrictions to determine whether they are narrow and clearly defined, consistently applied, and fully coordinated with allies".

The association urged the US government to engage "more extensively with industry and experts to assess the impact of current and potential restrictions to determine whether they are narrow and clearly defined, consistently applied, and fully coordinated with allies".

"And we urge the administration to refrain from further restrictions until it engages more extensively with industry experts to assess the impact of current and potential restrictions to determine whether they are narrow and clearly defined, consistently applied, and fully coordinated with allies," SIA added.

Shu added that the US has overstretched the concept of national security and abused such measures as export controls in recent years, even at the expense of allies' interests.

This week, South Korean online news publisher Business Korea cited anonymous sources as saying that the US government proposed setting up a semiconductor industry alliance with its allies, including South Korea and Japan, to keep the Chinese mainland's fledgling semiconductor industry at bay.

"We're exploring where that will go with these innovative concepts, envisioning mobility as an ally of wellness, giving customers the ultimate luxury, more personal time rather than taking it.

Even though the US and the EU enjoy relations as allies, the EU countries must be aware that the most imports between China and the US are fairly complementary and aren't direct competition.

Trump also invoked the national security justification to impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, angering key allies.

[Photo/VCG]General Motors Co said a glut of used cars will return to market after their leases expire and drag on its finance unit this year, following similar warnings by peer Ford Motor Co and lenders such as Ally Financial Inc.

The National Automobile Dealers Association's used vehicle price index plunged in February by the most since November 2008, spurring concerns about the fallout for automakers, lenders including Ally Financial and car-rental companies such as Hertz Global Holdings Inc.

More efforts are needed from companies to make artificial intelligence a strategic ally and make it more responsible, as more companies around the globe are accelerating plans to implement AI amid uncertainties like COVID-19 and the global economic downturn, said Wilson Chow, global technology, media and telecommunications industry leader of market consultancy PwC, at the Vision China event on Friday.

Together, these investments can "make AI a strategic ally", Chow said, adding that it will close the gap between ideas and execution to drive faster and better decisions.

To make AI a strategic ally, Chow also suggested making strategy a game－that is AI can game out different scenarios for a company, modeling future conditions and their likely impact.

The move overgeneralized the concept of national security, violates the principles of market economy and free trade rules, and harms the Chinese companies' legitimate interests, the spokesperson said, adding that Canada's claims that the ban was in consultation with its allies are proof that Ottawa acts in concert with Washington to crack down on Chinese firms.

Washington is also trying to persuade its allies in Europe to ban Huawei in their 5G rollout plans on alleged "national security risks", which has not been backed by factual evidence.

But he also praised Shenzhen-based Huawei, which the US has worked to portray as a national security threat and has coaxed some of its allies to shun the company's gear, as a leader in 5G mobile technology.

The ranking came despite Washington's intensified push to persuade its allies to ban Huawei.

"The question is whether, within this window, the United States and our allies can mount sufficient competition to Huawei to retain and capture enough market share to sustain the kind of long-term and robust competitive position necessary to avoid surrendering dominance to China," Barr said, according to a transcript of his speech at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Among the 91 commercial 5G contracts Huawei has inked, the largest number by any telecom gear maker so far, more than half are from Europe, where Washington has spared no effort to dissuade its allies from using the company in their 5G systems.

Analysts said the steadily growing contracts show that Huawei has won the trust of more foreign telecom operators with its technological prowess, and Washington's groundless security accusations have failed to convince even some of its closest allies.

The attacks by the United States on Huawei Technologies in the past few days show its failure in threatening European allies to get a blanket ban on the Chinese telecom giant's 5G technology.

Pompeo, who has traveled to Europe frequently to pressure US allies to ban Huawei, was disappointed when the United Kingdom announced on Jan 28 that it would include Huawei in the country's noncore 5G networks.

This decision has been a significant victory for Huawei in the face of a global pressure campaign waged by the US government seeking to cajole its allies into banning the firm based on the grounds of national security.

In furthering its relationship with China, Britain has shown that even the staunchest American allies are not truly convinced about warnings of an inevitable Sino-US conflict, which will compel nations to take sides.

It won the trust of foreign carriers, despite the efforts by Washington to dissuade its allies from using Huawei equipment in 5G rollout plans.

Swantee's shift from surprise to worry to deeper trust of Huawei seems to reflect the broader trend in how foreign telecom operators and governments are responding to the US government's efforts to dissuade its allies from using Huawei in their network plans.

At the same time, Europe is where most of the US government's allies are located and Washington spares no effort to persuade them from banning Huawei on 5G plans.

Following the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, $300 billion out of $640 billion that Russia had in its gold and foreign exchange reserves were frozen in March 2022, as part of the sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies.

Under its Indo-Pacific Strategy, Washington has established regional partnerships, alliances, organizations and rules, and enhanced the collective strength within and beyond the region, so that it can achieve the second major strategic goal of the Indo-Pacific Strategy — connection, or joining hands with its allies to achieve its strategic goals.

Washington has also joined hands with its allies in the Indo-Pacific region to promote a "clean economy", referring to clean energy, decarbonization and infrastructure.

But such a practice would be detrimental to the international status of the US capital market, and harm the image of the US government in many countries, including its European allies, Dong said.

On Friday, oil prices had plunged after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies failed to reach an agreement on proposed additional output reductions of 1.5 million barrels per day.

OPEC and its allies also failed to reach an agreement on extending current production cuts under a deal that will expire on April 1.

On the commodity front, oil prices rallied, topping $70 a barrel for the first time since May as Washington pushed allies to halt importing crude from Iran.

"In the early days of the Trump administration, Boeing was very successful in making an ally of the president, who early on visited the Charleston plant where it makes 787s," Ted Reed, who covers airlines for Forbes, told China Daily.

The Chinese business community in Namibia, he added, has contributed vastly to the socio-economic development of the country, making them a worthwhile ally.