Huawei Digs In for a Drawn-Out Battle With Trump’s White House
With its American supply chain drying up, the Chinese tech giant is working on contingency plans.
Employees walk toward the canteen for lunch at Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen, China, on May 22.
Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
Step through the gates of Huawei Technologies Co.’s sprawling campus in southern China, and you’ll see a workforce in frenetic motion. Neon-green minivans ferry workers between offices around the clock. Fluorescent lights burn through the night. Employee canteens are open until near midnight.
China’s largest technology company has thrived on what some employees and outsiders call its “wolf culture.” The take-no-prisoners approach is amplified now that Huawei is at war with President Trump, fighting back against his efforts to cut off its markets and customers and deprive it of critical technology. On May 17, the U.S. Department of Commerce added Huawei to a blacklist of companies that blocks it from buying American software and components it needs to make its products.