U.S. should learn from its failure to take down Huawei

Chinese tech company's rebound shows limitations of sanctions strategy

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Comparing the iPhone 15 Pro and the Huawei Mate 60 Pro in Shanghai: Huawei's HarmonyOS could displace Apple's iOS as China's second-most used operating system this year. © Reuters

Nina Xiang is managing director at TH Capital, an investment advisory and asset management firm. She is the author of "US-China Tech War: What Chinese Tech History Reveals About Future Tech Rivalry."

Huawei Technologies' return to the smartphone market last August with a 5G model competitive with Apple's iPhone came as a surprise to U.S. policymakers who thought that Washington's sanctions on the company had largely knocked it out of market contention.

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