- By the print edition, 2nd August 2015, http://www.economist.com/node/21559922
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Situation
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Foreigners difficulties to prononce the name
- Not Hawaii but hwah-way
- they produce a video teaching people to prononce the right name
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Overtaken Sweden'Ericsson
- becomes now the world's largest telecoms-equipment-maker
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Becoming an increasingly powerful global player
- Going head-to-head with the best in competitive market
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$32- billion business empire
- 140'000 employees
- Customers in 140 countries
- Earn respect with high-quality telecoms equipment at low prices
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Feared
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Westerners's fears
- Chinese spook's eavesdropping
- Shutting down in wartime
- Chinese government helping Huawei with contracts to improve the spying
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America
- suspicions because of a recent cyber-attacks attributed to chinese hackers
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India
- faced opposition to its commercial expansion
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Australia
- blocked Huawei's participation to build a national broadband network in the country
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Banning Huawei = impossible
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Economic benefit of competition from China and Huaewei is huge
- boosts growth and wellbeing
- Make Africa's mobile-telecoms revolution possible thanks to their cheap equipment
- Everybody makes telecoms equipment in China nowadays
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Founder
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Ren Zhengei
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Engineer
- People's Liberation Army (PLA
- Difficulties to win customers in China
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Followed Mao's strategy
- Using the countryside to encircle and capture the cities
- won foreign markets too