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Events on Thursday 16 May 2019 2
1917 – 2019I.M. Pei (1917-2019)Died 16 May 2019, aged 102I.M. Pei was a Chinese-American architect known for landmark modernist designs including the glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum and the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. He won the Pritzker Prize in 1983. He died in Manhattan at age 102.
2019US blacklists HuaweiTrade restrictions cut Chinese tech giant off from suppliersThe United States added Huawei to a trade blacklist barring American companies from supplying it with technology without government approval, citing national security concerns. The move disrupted Huawei's smartphone business, notably cutting off access to Google's Android services. It escalated broader US-China trade and technology tensions.