With a brave face, the founder of Huawei rejects the threats of the United States and promises to support Apple

Insane by the US attempts to prevent the growth of Huawei, its founder defends the technological prowess of the company and is committed to continue its emergency plans.

"We will review the situation again and solve the problems," said Ren Zhengfei, also the company's general manager, in an interview with Bloomberg. "We could have emergency plans for the heart of the plane – the engine and the fuel tank – but we may not have plans for the wings."

On May 17, Washington added Huawei to a blacklist, banning US companies from dealing with China's largest technology company. The Trump administration accuses Huawei of helping Beijing in spying, which the company denies.

Mr. Ren, who served as a technologist with the Chinese People's Liberation Army early in his career, said that Huawei had been honored for his technological superiority over the United States and that Washington was trying to to slow down its progress.

"We lead the United States … if we were late, [Mr] Trump would not need to make as much effort to tackle us. If the United States restricts us, we will reduce our purchases in the United States and use more of our own chips. "

The equipment manufactured by Huawei should be used on a large scale when the 5th generation wireless network – 5G – will be put online, thus feeding everything from autonomous cars to the Internet of Things. Huawei currently imports nearly half of the chips – used in its equipment – from US companies, Ren said.

"The United States has not developed this technology, it is more likely that they have stolen our technology," Huawei said in response to allegations of intellectual property theft against him.

However, he was opposed to targeting the US tech giant Apple in retaliation for Huawei's US restrictions and said if it did, he would be the first to "protest".

"Apple is my teacher, he's coming before us. As a student, why should I oppose my teacher … I will never do that. Apple is the first global company, if there was no Apple, there would be no mobile Internet. "

Mr. Ren admitted that the backlash in the United States would result in lower profits, but that it will not affect his business with other countries.

"We risk missing our expected growth targets, but we will grow … being able to progress in the toughest combat environments is testament to our excellence."

The United States is not an international police force, Ren said, adding, "The rest of the world will decide whether they should work with us based on their own business interests."

According to researcher International Data Corporation, Huawei smartphone shipments in the first quarter rose 50% year-over-year, overtaking Apple to occupy second place in the market. Mr. Ren, however, said that his company was not interested in the race to overtake competitors.

"We can grow bigger or smaller. We are not a publicly traded company, we are not just looking for growth or profits … it's good enough to allow us to survive. "