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Can Huawei face fines like Google, Apple?

The European Union’s chief antitrust official, Margrethe Vestager, has made her name tackling big corporate fish in pretty unconventional ways. A ruling on Alphabet Inc’s Google, which came with a seven-figure fine, argued free services weren’t always good for the consumer, while those on Apple Inc and Starbucks Corp deemed that low taxes were illegal state aid (though some judges ...

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Troubling China-India conflict is ‘economic’

What’s worse than two populous, nuclear-armed countries killing each other’s soldiers? Two populous, nuclear-armed countries letting their longer-term relationship wither. Fighting along the Chinese-Indian border on the Tibetan plateau hasn’t come out of the blue. Ties, never solid, are increasingly becoming a casualty of the way New Delhi is being drawn into the wider rivalry between Beijing and Washington. If ...

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France warning its flag carrier against making forced job cuts

Bloomberg France is warning flag carrier Air France-KLM against making forced job cuts, with Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire saying such a move would constitute a “red line” the carrier shouldn’t cross after receiving a state bailout. “We spent money to save Air France,” he said on Thursday in a radio interview. “I am asking that there not be any ...

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