Editorial Illustration for The Economist
Print title: “Failed eradication”
Web title: “America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring. The company is growing stronger—and less vulnerable”
Art director: An Namyoung
pub. June 15, 2024
Read the article here.
"By 2020 America’s harrying had descended into all-out war, with most American firms barred from doing business with Huawei and foreign firms barred from selling it chips or other gear that use American technology. America also sought to dissuade other countries from using Huawei’s equipment in their mobile-phone networks.”
““Yet Huawei has not just survived; it is thriving once again… It has re-entered the handset business. Its telecoms-equipment sales are rising again. And it has achieved this in large part by replacing foreign technology in its wares with home-grown parts and programmes, making it much less vulnerable to American hostility in future. Having failed to kill Huawei, Uncle Sam’s attacks have only made it stronger.
“As a private firm whose goals dovetail neatly with those of the Chinese government, it is becoming a model for how China thinks about innovation.”