Ren Zhengfei, the influential founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, warned of a “very painful” decade to come in an internal company memo leaked to the media this week, becoming a viral sensation on China’s heavily policed Internet.
With the American economy floundering becauswe of shortages, the Biden administration has approved licenses to sell chips to Huawei.
Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei would welcome a phone call from President Joe Biden and the chance to talk about the Chinese telecom giant’s future on U.S. soil.
China on Wednesday accused Washington of “oppressing Chinese companies” after U.S. regulators rejected telecom suppliers Huawei and ZTE on national security grounds.
Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday that employees of Chinese telecom giant Huawei have “collaborated on research projects with Chinese armed forces personnel, indicating closer ties to the country’s military than previously acknowledged.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday accused Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei of lying about his company’s ties to the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party, which controls it.
Ren Zhengfei, the founder and chief executive of Chinese technology firm Huawei, said in an interview Tuesday he had long expected conflict with the U.S. government because his company “sacrificed individuals and families only for the goal to stand at the top of the world.”
President Donald Trump directed attention to the news that Chinese telecom company Huawei had hired a former President Barack Obama official as a lobbyist.
