Chinese netizens have been laughing at the expense of US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, who will be surprised to learn that she has been crowned unofficial Huawei brand ambassador despite her country’s efforts to hobble the company and China’s wider tech industry.
As noted by Huawei Central, the irony of US sanctions indirectly leading to the launch of a new Huawei 5G handset was not lost on social media users who took to photo editing software to place Raimondo as if she is endorsing the Mate 60 Pro.
Before 2019, Huawei was making serious headway into Western markets with its cellular networking technology. The company actually accounted for nearly a quarter of the handset market at one time but all of this changed with former US president Trump’s Entity List, which restricted named Chinese companies’ access to US technology, beginning with Huawei and ZTE, and their ability…
