Huawei pays staff mega 'dedication' bonus for resisting Trump

Payout is latest initiative by China's biggest telecoms firm to counter US pressure

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Huawei Founder Ren Zhengfei gestures as he chats with Huawei executives at the company campus in Shenzhen, China. The Chinese telecom giant on Monday said it will double employees' October salaries. © AP

MARRIAN ZHOU, Nikkei staff writer

LOS ANGELES -- Huawei Technologies, the world's largest telecoms equipment maker, will double staff salaries in October to thank its over 190,000 employees for enduring the Trump administration's blacklisting of the Chinese company for allegedly spying on behalf of Beijing.

"In 2019, the company and all employees were, and are, facing extraordinarily external challenges," said an internal message to staff obtained by the Nikkei Asian Review. "Upon approval by the company's president, a special dedication award will be paid."

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