House of Huawei

Washington Post reporter Eva Dou capably details the history of Huawei Technologies’ rise, analyzes the firm’s connections to the Chinese government, and explores in depth how it manages to thrive in an often hostile global market.

Huawei Technologies Co.

Founded in 1987 by then-42-year-old Ren Zhengfei,Huawei is the world’s foremost supplier of the “pipes” that make up the physical infrastructure of telephone networks and the internet. Huawei is the third-largest maker of smartphones, a vendor of critical undersea internet cables, and a major force in developing 5G cellular networks.