Huawei founder speaks out: ‘The US can’t crush us’

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei basically just said his company is too big, too important to fail. In his first public interview since his daughter — Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou — was arrested in December, he tells the BBC that the US government’s accusations and criminal indictments, including fraud and the theft of trade secrets, won’t be enough to “crush” Huawei. “There’s no way the US can crush us,” he said. “The world cannot leave us because we are more advanced. Even if they persuade more countries not to use us temporarily, we can always scale things down a bit.” Huawei has faced intense scrutiny in the United States, where government officials say the company poses a national security threat, and that it could be used as a vessel for... Continue reading…