After years of tension, the Huawei problem boiled over this month,
and the US-China trade spat looked to have turned into a full-on
economic war rather than just a tit-for-tat tariff joust.
By
2040 the wider issue may well have lead, if not to WW3, to a
dangerously polarised world split between two giant economically and
politically equal superpowers – unlike the US and the Soviet Union at
the height of the Cold War – each with its own internet, tech stack,
supply chains and captive markets...
