Huawei: 'Survival will be our priority' in 2020


At Huawei, workers are either "tree growers" or "pit diggers" and the "heady scent of plums" comes only after the "bone-deep bite of winter".
So says a poetic New Year's message from the Chinese telecoms giant which sets out its "vision" for 2020.
But beneath the flowery language, Huawei admits life will be "difficult" after the Trump administration banned the firm from doing business in the US.
"Survival will be our first priority," it said.
Huawei, which is one of the world's largest suppliers of 5G equipment, said sales growth for 2019 will be lower than it initially thought, rising by 18% to yuan 850bn (£92.7bn).

That compares to revenue growth of 19.5% in the previous year.
It forecasts that sales will stay under pressure in 2020 during which it expects to remain on the US Entity List.
The US has classified Huawei as a national security threat amid claims the company has "close ties to the Chinese government and military apparatus".
Huawei said the decision was based on "innuendo, and mistaken assumptions".
In its New Year's statement, the company's rotating chairman, Eric Xu, said: "The US government's campaign against Huawei is strategic and long-term."
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Image captionThe UK government is expected to decide in January if Huawei will roll-out 5G mobile networks

World’s youngest prime minister Sanna Marin ‘has a lot of work ahead’ in Finland

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What is remarkable about Finland's new government is not just that the prime minister Sanna Marin is 34 years old, but that the other members of parties in the Finnish centre left coalition government are also young and women. Sanna Marin has shown that it is alright to come from a household with two women as parents with the social changes in Finnish society.

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Police violence is increasing in Greece, but government is unconcerned:-)

Since Greece elected a new government, led by the New Democracy party, in June 2019, instances of police violence have come to dominate public debate. One of the latest incidents involves a December 18 police raid on squats in Athens, during which a renowned film director was beaten, injured and arrested for refusing to comply with police orders.
In November, Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis, who is in charge of law enforcement forces, issued an ultimatum: squats occupying public and private buildings should be evacuated within two weeks. Squatting, a phenomenon mainly affecting Greece's largest cities, is presented by the current government as a manifestation of the anarchist ideology that supposedly supports terrorists and migrants.
Following the minister's announcement, several police operations took place, mostly in the capital, to evacuate buildings. On December 18 at 7 a.m., the target was three occupied buildings in Koukaki, a prestigious district in central Athens, where police arrested nine people. A resident of a nearby house said she'd been subjected to violence and threats as police officers broke into her home, beating and arresting her husband and son:

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