Ren Zhengfei may sell Huawei’s 5G technology to a Western buyer
The Chinese telecoms giant’s boss considers creating a competitor for his company
IN AN ATRIUM designed to evoke ancient Greece—ringed by stone columns and six towering approximations of the Caryatids—it was fitting that Ren Zhengfei, chief executive of Huawei, should extend an olive branch to the West: a piece of his company. The palatial edifice on Huawei’s sprawling campus in Shenzhen houses an exhibition hall proudly displaying the Chinese telecommunications giant’s “fifth-generation” (5G) technology. The ultra-swift, and ultra-coveted, mobile-phone networks will soon connect everything from cars to industrial robots.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Piece offering”
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