“This is likely to be long-term. We are prepared
for a long-term battle, we don’t prepare for a
short-term fight,” Ren said. “We fight a protracted
war, and ... we might actually emerge stronger.”
Asked whether, with Meng detained in
Vancouver, Huawei was now facing its “most
dangerous moment,” Ren answered no.
“Before we had been suppressed by the U.S. and
the occurrence of the Meng Wanzhou incident,
our company was at its most perilous,” Meng said.
“Laziness. Everybody had money in their pockets
and disobeyed assignments and were unwilling
to work in places where conditions are tough. It
was a dangerous state.”
“Now the entire company is galvanized, and
combat power is booming. How is this the
most dangerous time? It should be in the best
state,” Ren said.
Meng is accused of lying to banks about
Huawei’s dealings with Iran in violation of U.S.
trade sanctions. Ren said she was using her time
in house arrest to study for a PhD and remains
“very optimistic.”
U.S. officials say the sanctions are unrelated to
the trade war with China, but many analysts see
them as a way to pressure U.S. allies to abide
by Washington’s entreaties to exclude Huawei
equipment from their next-generation 5G
wireless networks.
Huawei Technologies relies on Google’s
Android operating system and U.S. components
suppliers for its smartphones, but Ren said
last week that it has “supply backups” if it loses
access to American components.
Huawei’s U.S. sales collapsed in 2012 after a
congressional panel told phone carriers to shun
it and its smaller Chinese competitor, ZTE Corp.,
as security threats.
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