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âAuthoritative⊠a tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today.â â Financial Times
âThereâs probably no better account of Chinaâs rise to economic dominance as seen through the prism of a single company.â â The Wall Street Journal
ABOUT THE BOOK
The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world.
On the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades steadily building an obscure telecom company into one of the worldâs most powerful technological empires with hardly anyone noticing. This all changed in December 2018, when the detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologiesâ female scion, sparked an international hostage standoff, poured fuel on the US-China trade war, and suddenly thrust the mysterious company into the global spotlight.
In House of Huawei, Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou pieces together a remarkable portrait of Huaweiâs reclusive founder, Ren Zhengfei, and how he built a sprawling corporate empireâone whose rise Western policymakers have become increasingly obsessed with halting. Based on wide-ranging interviews and painstaking archival research, House of Huawei dissects the global web of power, money, influence, surveillance, bloodshed, and national glory that Huawei helped to buildâand that has also ensnared it.
