 |
Sitrick And Company has signed on to provide strategic communications to China’s Huawei Technologies, which is on the US Treasury Dept.’s sanctions list.
The one-year contract, which went into effect May 7, covers strategic counsel, media & analyst relations, data insights, content stategy and public communications.
It is worth $75K per month.
The pact sets out reimbursement levels for travel expenses, up to $3K for one round-trip airfare, up to $900 per night hotel accommodations, and $200 per day for meals. Sitrick & Co. will not be asked to travel overseas.
The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security on May 13 issued an alert warning risks involved in “using PRC advanced-computing ICs, including specific Huawei Ascend chips.”
The bureau said those chips were likely developed or produced in violation of US export controls.
A spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Commerce called the American alert “market distorting,” and a threat to negotiations to hammer out a trade deal between China and the US.
While finding the right solution to a problem is still important, the work that differentiates effective communications leaders is problem-finding—identifying the real risk before it becomes visible, reputational or irreversible.
Orchestra has recruited Deepika Sandhu for the senior VP-legal & crisis communications slot.
Apologies are often seen as a weakness or as proof that a leader has lost control of the narrative. But Donald Trump's failure to apologize after he posted—and then deleted—a video with a racist clip of Barack and Michelle Obama shows how flawed this mindset is.
Tim Allan, communications director for embattled British prime minister Keir Starmer, has quit as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has engulfed Ten Downing Street.
The new playbook for surviving a public crisis.
