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Suspicious minds
Chinese telecoms champion Huawei Technologies has a target on its back as far as Washington is concerned – and the arrows have been flying thick and fast lately. The latest is talk of Washington applying stricter rules that would deny Huawei access to wafer foundry services for its smartphone and 5G chips.
In the first of a series of features on the company, the Post’s tech reporters sought to answer the question: how and why did the relationship between the US and Huawei sour?
Interviews with current and former Huawei employees, as well as US government officials and analysts, point to a cultural divide, some missteps by Huawei in its early days in the US, and above all Washington’s deep-seated mistrust of communist-ruled China.
Founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei had an interesting take on it. “There was no specific period that caused this, because we've always viewed the US as a powerful country,” Ren told the Post in an interview last month. “We are confused about how we stumbled into this situation, and we will probably move forward in a similarly confused manner.”