A prophecy. After ZTE was "banned" by the United States, Huawei has also become the object of the US investigation.
On April 25, the U.S. media "Wall Street Journal" quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Huawei violated U.S. sanctions on Iran.
The timing of the Huawei investigation is even more intriguing: just after the U.S. announced that the Treasury secretary and trade representative would lead a delegation to China to discuss trade issues in the next few days, Chinese technology companies were immediately involved in a new judicial investigation. The two major technology giants have been hit and sanctioned by the U.S. government one after another, under the shadow of the Sino-U.S. trade tensions, and in the environment of Sino-U.S. technological competitiveness competition.
For a while, it became confusing whether Huawei would become the next ZTE. In this context, whether ZTE can get out of this crisis depends not only on the follow-up negotiations between the company and relevant US departments, but also on the prospects of negotiations between the Chinese and US governments. As one of China's top technology giants, whether Huawei, which is involved in it, will become a bargaining chip in Sino-US trade negotiations, has deepened the anxiety of the outside world about the accelerated spread of the Sino-US trade war on the enterprise side.
The United States has made moves one after another, basically aiming at the core enterprises of Made in China 2025. As the most successful representatives of the globalization of Chinese technology companies, Huawei and ZTE are global communication giants that take into account both network equipment and smartphone business. At present, Huawei is the world's largest network equipment manufacturer and the third largest smartphone manufacturer; while ZTE is the world's fourth largest network equipment manufacturer and the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the US market.
Before Huawei was investigated, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology once again advanced the 5G commercial time node. Since 2009, Huawei has invested about 600 million US dollars in 5G technology. The investigation is likely to affect the competitiveness of Chinese companies in the 5G market. ZTE may not only lose its annual shipment of tens of millions of U.S. mobile phones, but also severely damage the competitiveness of its core business network equipment in the global market.
When soldiers approach the city, there is no reason not to draw "swords and spears". The Chinese government actively invests in technology research and development in the technology industry, and the rapid rise of Chinese technology companies in the global market may bring challenges to the US's dominance in the global technology field. Behind the friction of the trade war, there is also a fierce battle for technology.
Huawei has prepared more "grain and grass" than ZTE. In addition to independently developing operating systems and chips for emergencies, Huawei has also consciously expanded the scope of supply channels to reduce its dependence on a single supplier. Investigating Huawei is so easy, but dealing with Huawei will not be easy.
The "ZTE Incident" ahead of time has not only sounded the compliance wake-up call for Chinese companies that are actively globalizing, but will also make Chinese companies that have business dealings with the United States "first-level combat readiness" to take precautionary measures and stop reporting too much about the flexibility of Sino-US economic and trade. Realistic imagination and fluke. It also allows China's technology industry to experience the current reality gap in core technology.
To get out of the current embarrassing situation of technology integrators and get rid of the unfavorable situation that the core technology is blocked by the United States, we can only continue to invest heavily in the research and development of core technologies such as 5G communications, integrated chips, display screens, artificial intelligence, and autonomous driving. Tech giants of their own destiny.
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