Huawei Plots Future Elsewhere as US Trust Stays Elusive

Huawei Technologies, China’s biggest maker of phone-network equipment, is focusing investments on countries in which it has been accepted, because of lingering suspicions in the US about its motives.

“Right now we should not be expending too much effort in the United States as it might take 10 or 20 years for them to know that Huawei is a company with integrity,” founder and Chief Executive Officer Ren Zhengfei told reporters at a briefing in London. “We will accelerate efforts in countries that have accepted us.”

A US congressional committee in 2012 said Huawei and its competitor ZTE provide opportunities for Chinese intelligence services to tamper with telecommunications networks for spying, a claim both companies have denied.