His appointment will undoubtedly make the country of Uncle Sam cringe. Meng Wanzhou, current financial director of Huawei, will take over the presidency of the Chinese telecom and smartphone giant this Saturday. In the Middle Kingdom, no one represents better than her the resistance to the attacks of the United States against Chinese tech. Meng Wanzhou, who is none other than the daughter of Ren Zhengfei, the group’s founder, is known to have suffered the wrath of American justice five years ago.
It was at the request of the latter, who accused her of complicity in fraud to circumvent sanctions against Iran, that the leader was imprisoned, then placed under house arrest for three years in Canada. The initiative aroused the ire of Beijing. In the eyes of the Chinese government, this maneuver had only one objective: to destabilize Huawei at a key moment in its development: the…
