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Will the battle over Huawei kill globalization?
The U.S. and Europe are locked in an intense debate: Should a technology company’s country of origin determine whether its equipment should be included in…
A response from Huawei
Catherine Chen, Senior Vice President and Director of the Board at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, sent us this letter in response to the article The…
Back doors, and how Huawei got its facial recognition technology
The China Project illustration by Derek Zheng Doug Guthrie is a former Apple executive — and an erstwhile China bull. His views are no longer so…
New U.S. indictment against Huawei and Meng Wanzhou
Wearing a tracking device and designer clothing, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou leaves her residence in Vancouver. She is currently free on bail while awaiting an…
U.K. opens a door to Huawei, but not all the way
Photo credit: The China Project illustration by Derek Zheng. The U.K. opened a narrow door to Huawei 5G, with the government’s decision to designate “the Chinese…
U.K. government opens narrow door to Huawei
After more than a year of intense internal study and deliberation, and pressure from both the U.S. and Chinese governments, London on Tuesday decided to…
Huawei gets a Christmas gift from the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal gave Huawei a big sack of coal for Christmas, with a wide-ranging investigation into how much the company’s finances benefited from Chinese government support. “China’s tech champion got as much as $75 billion in tax breaks, financing and cheap resources as it became the world’s top telecom vendor,” the WSJ wrote.
A veiled threat from Chinese ambassador to Germany on Huawei
Wu Ken, China’s ambassador to Germany. On November 20, China’s ambassador to Germany, Wú Kěn 吴恳, said, per Xinhua: “Unfoundedly excluding Huawei’s involvement from setting…
Huawei slammed for treatment of former employee
985, 996, 251, 404. Just random numbers? Not quite. They’re what internet users posted — before they were deleted — in the comment section of an open letter penned by Mèng Wǎnzhōu 孟晚舟, the CFO of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, about her arrest in Canada.
Li Yuan at the New York Times (porous paywall) says the numbers were “slyly referring to a former Huawei employee who graduated from one of the country’s top universities in a program code-named 985, worked from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week and was jailed for 251 days after he demanded severance pay when his contract wasn’t renewed.”
Huawei in hot water at home for hypocrisy
985, 996, 251, 404. Just random numbers? Not quite. They’re what internet users posted — before they were deleted — in the comment section of…
China launches 5G months ahead of schedule
China launched 5G networks nationwide on October 31. China’s three big telecom companies — China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom — started selling 5G plans starting at 128 yuan per month on November 1, two months before an original start date of early 2020.
Meng Wanzhou back to court, and not for the last time
The other side of U.S.-China trade tensions, of course, is technology tensions. That Washington identified this as a core concern was apparent since the U.S…
