A 100 billion dollars technological company probably examines the current chaos caused by President Trump’s prices with a serene and detached view. Huawei.
The company was blocked on the American market in 2019, during the first term of the current president, and had to adapt, losing its largest market outside of continental China.
The decree prevented Huawei from working with American companies, both in B2C and B2B, forcing the main American networks to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to replace the network of Chinese company.
The EP has not been removed by the next outgoing American president, Joe Biden, making him permanent.
Quick advance until 2025, and Huawei is in good condition. The need is the mother of all the inventions, says the saying, and Huawei had to adapt quickly or risk becoming a footnote, ahead of his survival.
He acted quickly and decisively. In 2020, he sold his smartphone unit, Honor, to a Chinese consortium and invested massively in research and development (R&D).
It is supremely ironic that its last annual report, published on March 31, 2025, a few days before current market disorders, shows that Huawei’s revenues are almost back to their peak of 2020.
Yes, net profit has dropped by 28%, but it is because the company doubles R&D, a sector to which it devoted more than 20% of its income, or nearly 25 billion dollars. In total, since 2014, it has spent more than $ 170 billion in R&D.
“What does not kill you makes you stronger”
In December 2023, Huawei had more than 140,000 active patents and had more than 3,000 patents in the United States in 2024, growth of 44% compared to the previous year, a greater number and a faster growth rate than Apple, IBM or Alphabet, the mother company of Google.
Huawei focused on developing its local ecosystem, such as Microsoft, Google and Apple. Its Ascend calculation platform and its Harmonyos operating systems are now used on hundreds of millions of devices in China and, above all, in the world.
He succeeded where even the powerful Microsoft failed, creating alone and maintaining a third operating system outside the current duopoly centered on the United States of iOS and Android.
Its CPU range of Kunpeng server and the AI Ascend chips gradually reduce the hegemony of the United States to computer equipment in continental China.
And that only makes the role that Histilicon, another of its subsidiaries, plays in the push to develop risc-v as an alternative both X86 and ARM (a decision that is not without controversy).
Given the current speculations that the US President Trump could impose additional prices on China, which makes it essential to be more difficult to do business with the second largest world market, Chinese companies can consider eliminating the American market from their business plans.
The use of Huawei’s experience as Manuel would not be a bad starting point for anyone who wants to take this perilous path.
A common proverb in China is If you endure the most bitter of bitterness, it is not until this time that you will become a person above the others (Thank you Google Gemini).
Sometimes short -term pain, as hard as they are, is the only viable gateway to a long -term gain.
