You're American like me.
There is a massive company
you may have barely heard of: Huawei
Huawei was put on an export blacklist
by Donald Trump in 2019.
But outside of the US,
something very different is happening. In Dubai,
you see billboards everywhere amongst Apple, Samsung and Amazon,
you see its office building next to Oracle.
Huawei is aggressively
opening up stores around Europe, but the US put sanctions on Huawei,
even taking it out of Google's Android operating system.
This is a massive company with nearly 200,000 employees around the world.
Its growth was booming just a couple of years ago.
More Huawei phones were sold than Apple or Samsung, but all of that has stalled.
So let's understand exactly why Huawei is being faced with these challenges.
I've come to the Huawei
store in the Dubai Mall, and this is what you see, see mobile phones,
you see laptops.
You see smartwatches.
You see a lot of very sleek looking. devices
This is their newest phone.
It's called Huawei P50 Pocket.
It's a foldable phone.
It immediately snaps in half.
Pricing is really interesting here.
So you could get a brand new pocket phone which would cost you 1700 dollars,
but you can also get a phone for as low as 490, which is over here.
In addition to laptops, in addition
to cell phones, they also sell gadgets for your house, like Wi-Fi routers.
I'm meeting a documentary filmmaker who made it his mission to understand
how this company is coping with sanctions and where it can go next.
I am Takeuchi Ryo and now I'live in China
and I'm Japanese Documentary Director.
Huawei.is no like a compan that is a threat to any country.
It's just a normal high- tech company,
And it seems like the US
is most critical of our way compared to other Chinese tech companies.
Why do you think that is?
Not just Americans,
buta lot of Japanese high tech companies
are worried about being surpassed by Huáwet in the high tech areas.
So this sense of fear, this sense of danger,
because Huawei is just doing a tentite job.
it is territic. Just like 30 years ago like in Japan,
alot of Japanese high tech companies were surpassing
those counterparts in America
So the Americans felt dangerous.
That's number one
And secondly, they're not public listed company.
And they have a lot of information that is open
but compared to other listed companies less so,
because they're not. a pubitely listed company.
So you just cannot see apparently what their face
look like 100% in a transparent manner.
The sincere hope to appease also hammer me or sanction it.
They're not really good at publicity,
or they're not doing enough publicity
And on top of that "their CEO Ren Zhengiel,
So do you think that they can continue to grow?
Can they still do this?
where can it make up for the
the loss in smartphone sales.
Let me know.
What are your thoughts?
Does Huawei stand a chance without the US market
and what do you think is going to happen next?