Huawei may be facing challenges, but its commitment to innovation, with over $15 billion (£11.5bn) spent on research and development in 2018 alone, has kept it one step ahead of the competition, and is one of the key reasons that it is managing to weather the current storms. Sales have certainly not yet been affected, with record revenues of $122 billion (£93.8bn) in 2019. Despite the opposition it faces, Huawei shows no sign of going away quietly.

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