Now, misfortune falls on Huawei. Meng's arrest has struck a nerve in China which boasts Huawei, the world-leading 5G technology advocate and second-largest smartphone maker behind Samsung. Dating back to the days when ZTE, Huawei's major rival both in China and around the world, had been badly crippled by US Department of Commerce, no verbal or substantive support were shown from any Chinese telecom companies which have also been entwined with trade in Iran. Internet users and commentators even threw salt into ZTE's wounds, debunking its overly boasts about the achievement of intellectual porperties in comparison with Huawei which has been at the heart of China's ambitions to reduce the reliance on foreign technology, sloughing off American's constraints on core chip imports. The whole incident has accented Huawei's image being a tech giant representing China's worldwide influence over high-end tech industry. What was Huawei as well as other rivals doing when ZTE was forced to suspend all its service and products? Yes, they were snatching at ZTE's share of market in possibly every area, putting aside solidarity that should've stepped in. It is Chinese companies' typical idiosyncrasy that could not help win over the world, particular the US. Hopefully this lesson can be well absorbed of being aware of how to comply with laws and regulations where it operates.
Though American is extremely generous in regarding Huawei as 'a point man' , 'at the heart of China's ambitions to reduce reliance on foreign technology', 'a state champion that plays a crucial role in China's rollout of 5G', China, as a country whose tech aspirations are clear and obvious, has been seen as relying on misapproparation of American technology amid export bans put on a similar tech giant ZTE that had halted almost all of its operations for months.
