TAIPEI -- Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant that Washington views as a global security threat, is scrambling to stockpile up to a year's worth of foreign supplies for its core telecoms equipment business ahead of a widely-expected toughening of U.S. technology sanctions that may come as soon as next month, multiple sources told the Nikkei Asian Review.
The new U.S. measures, which Huawei and its suppliers fear could amount to a U.S. technology quarantine of the world's largest telecoms equipment maker, underlines how the two countries' battle for global technological and military supremacy continues unabated even though Washington and Beijing signed a phase one trade deal last week.
