BooksBooks: Huawei's origin story probed, but no smoking gun
Portrait of Chinese telecoms group distinguishes it from the Chinese state
The most revealing insight of "House of Huawei" is how the company has merged the organizing principles of its Silicon Valley peers and the Chinese Communist Party and used both to achieve global success. © Getty Images
Earlier this month, reports emerged that the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies had bought 2 million semiconductors from Taiwan's Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. through shell companies, circumventing U.S. restrictions aimed at blocking Chinese access to advanced chips.