Huawei blockade, China meditates retaliation and shakes Apple

From one side, Chinese users organize to demand boycott of apple products, making it known that your purchase looks like an act of treason.

On the other hand, one of the most predictable short-term scenarios, according to experts consulted by Reuters, would be the increase in tariffs for US technology products, and Apple would be the main harm for its sales volume in the Asian market.

The company headed by Tim Cook He is very dependent on China for its productionand in the face of these risks, his shares fell by more than 3% on the New York Stock Exchange.

Answer by Huawei

Huawei has already responded to the United States through the intermediary of its founder, Ren Zhengfei, who considered that Washington underestimated his company, while the president Donald Trump We have been doing everything we can to block the international ambitions of China's communications giant for months.

"American politicians, with their current way of acting, show that they underestimate our strength"Zhengfei said during an interview with the press via the mobile video surveillance application, the Chinese state television.

The world's second-largest smartphone and technology leader 5G (the fifth generation of cellular technology) have been at the heart of the Trump administration's concerns since 2018, in a context of commercial warfare and technological rivalry between Beijing and China. Washington.

"Huawei's 5G network will not be affected at all [por ello]. In terms of 5G technology, the other companies reach Huawei is not a matter of two or three years "he promised Ren Zhengfeireferring to American and European groups.

After Trump has included Huawei on his blacklist, Google computer giant, whose Android system equips most of the world's smartphones, has announced that he should sever his ties with the Chinese group.

So that may no longer have access to certain Android services and popular Gmail and Google Maps apps.

Washington's decision also affects many US companies. And major semiconductor manufacturers, such as Qualcomm and Intel, have informed their employees that they would also stop selling to Huawei, according to the Bloomberg news agency.

"We will not go to the American flea now, lightly and on a whim. [con las empresas fabricantes]", defended Zhengfei.

"But in case of difficulty of supply, we have alternatives. [es decir, antes de que comenzara la guerra comercial] We supplied 50% of US chips and 50% of Huawei chips. We can not be isolated from the rest of the world "he insisted.

The ban imposed by the United States could be a blow to large US companies that provide semiconductors to the Chinese group, according to industry experts.

"It could also be crippling for Huawei"says Roger Kay, an badyst at Endpoint Technologies Associates. "If they do not have solid financial bases, they could enter a fatal circle, but if, on the contrary, they have full pockets, they can get out of the deal."

Huawei phone users around the world are now wondering if they can continue to access Google services on their devices.

Given these concerns, Washington seems to have wanted to reduce tensions and Monday decreed a period of 90 days before imposing sanctions.

Ren Zhengfei considered that the measure "little sense" and announced that his group and Google "discuss" look for solutions before the ban to trade.

Huawei has been in Washington since 2018, who suspects the group will allow Chinese intelligence services to use their equipment to spy on communications on mobile phone networks around the world.

But for the telecommunications giant, Trump is basically trying to stop the development of a company considered too advanced technologically.

Huawei is also at the center of a diplomatic crisis in Canada, an ally of the United States, since his arrest in December at the request of Washington, chief financial officer of the Chinese group. Meng Wanzhou.

The responsible person, who is Zhengfei's daughter, is suspected of violating US sanctions in Iran.

"We sacrifice a person, a family, and this for an ideal: to reach the summits of the world", the founder of Huawei said. "And to reach this ideal, sooner or later, there would be a conflict with the United States".