The US Treasury Department will have 60 days to propose restrictions on Chinese investment in the United States, according to the presidential memorandum.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computer-science related jobs and just 400,000 graduates with the skills needed to fill them. Narrowing that gap has been an acute focus of big tech companies, like Amazon. In November, the Seattle tech titan launched “Amazon Future Engineer,” a program that funds computer science classes and scholarships with a focus on underserved students.
The US economy added 145,000 workers in December, fewer than expected, but unemployment remained at a 50-year low of 3.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
The US Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Monday against Huawei and its several subsidiaries, as well as Meng herself, alleging the company stole trade secrets, misled banks about its business and violated US sanctions. Canada's Justice Department confirmed later that officials had received a formal extradition request from the US, Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported.
The US first lady said the message of her tour to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt was to show the world that "we care."
The Turkish government had made clear their objection to US arming of YPG Kurds, whom Ankara has for long regarded as Syrian branch of the outlawed PKK.
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The US has put dozens of Chinese tech companies on its Entity List. They include telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co and its affiliates, supercomputer manufacturer Sugon, AI pioneer iFlytek Co, video surveillance company Hikvision and facial recognition technology startups SenseTime Group and Megvii Technology.
The US has accused Huawei of participating in digital espionage on behalf of the Chinese government, however it has not provided any evidence to support this claim, according to the UK National Cyber Security Centre.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently changed its COVID-19 testing guidelines, according to which most people without symptoms are no longer advised to get tested, even after an exposure to someone known to have the virus.
The US military confirmed on Thursday that an RQ-4 Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile system at approximately 2335 GMT on Wednesday. Iran, however, claimed the drone downed in the southern part of the country had crossed Iranian borders.