A Coffee with Ren

US sanctions on Huawei are detrimental to social progress in both countries. 

The current tensions between the United States and China with regard to trade are regrettable. Collaboration between countries is the only way to achieve social progress. In the Information Age, no country can single-handedly achieve anything. Open collaboration, especially in the area of technology, is the only way countries can achieve the shared goal of creating wealth and lifting people out of poverty. When conflicts arise during collaboration, laws and rules should resolve issues rather than restrictions. 

Although US companies are no longer supplying Huawei with components and parts, Huawei understands that these American companies didn’t cause current setbacks. Instead, politicians with different views about China and Huawei did. 

Huawei was taken aback by the force of the United States’ measures, but is confident and optimistic about the future. 

Huawei expected barriers, challenges and conflicts when entering foreign markets, but not targeted measures by the United States. Huawei’s production capacity will decrease over...