Ren Zhengfei, the billionaire founder of beleaguered Chinese electronics giant Huawei, sat down with Chinese state media on Tuesday to offer his response to the dramatic turn of events from over the weekend — namely, Google’s decision to cut off Huawei phones from Android updates. Which looked to some outsiders as a potentially crippling blow for the company that derives almost half its handset sales from outside China.
Zhengfei, a former engineer in China’s People’s Liberation Army before founding Huawei, tried to quell some of the uncertainty that’s built around the company over the last few days in the interview, portions of which have been reported by the South China Morning Post. The gist of his comments — blame Trump, not Google.
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