FOCUSUS fires arrow into Huawei’s Achilles heelhome/Opinion/Analysis/US fires arrow into Huawei’s Achilles heelSHANGHAI: The Trump administration’s move to block US technology sales to Huawei shoots an arrow deep into the Chinese tech giant’s Achilles heel — its over-reliance on American components — and threatens the company’s very survival, analysts said. Trump’s broadside will cause pain for US companies that count on Huawei as a steady customer, but it poses an existential threat to Huawei. Major setbackAnd with the digital ecosystem now a duopoly of Android and Apple’s IoS system, Huawei is in a bind. “The longer-term effect is that Huawei and other Chinese companies turn away more sharply from American suppliers,” he said. But tech analysts view that as mere bravado.

Source: Manila Times May 21, 2019 16:30 UTC