The man behind Huawei

By Norman Pearlstine, David Pierson, Robyn Dixon, David S. Cloud, Alice Su, Max Hao Lu

April 10, 2019 12:40 PM PT

Ren Zhengfei turned a company with no intellectual property into the world’s largest telecom and made China a global leader in 5G technology. Washington says he had help from Beijing.

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David Pierson

David Pierson is a former foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.

Robyn Dixon

Robyn Dixon was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. She has reported from China, sub-Saharan Africa, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and other parts of the former Soviet Union, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq. She left The Times in October 2019.

Alice Su

Alice Su is the Los Angeles Times’ former Beijing bureau chief.

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