China techHuawei finds allies in Russia as Kremlin cuts reliance on West
Companies turn to Chinese telecoms giant for non-US tech
Guo Ping, deputy chairman of Huawei, and Alexei Kornya, president of Russia's MTS, shake hands in the Kremlin in front of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping last year. Huawei is expanding quickly in Russia © AP
DIMITRI SIMES, Contributing writer
MOSCOW -- Huawei Technologies and Russia have both felt the lash of U.S. sanctions. Now the Chinese telecoms group and Moscow are playing up their resistance to such threats to build an increasingly close relationship as the Kremlin tries to wean itself off Western technology and equipment.