U.S. actions are now damaging Huawei

In May 2019, the U.S. placed on the Entity List which banned the manufacturer from accessing its U.S. supply chain; the year before it had spent over $8 billion on components and software from the U.S. The biggest loss for Huawei was its inability to license Google’s version of the open source Android operating system and use Google Mobile Services on its phones. But even without Google’s apps on its international models (inside China, most Google apps are banned), Huawei managed to grow its smartphone shipments by 35.5% last year to 142 million units surpassing Apple for second place after …