Exclusive: Huawei stockpiles supplies, fearing new US tech ban

China's biggest telecoms company asks Asian suppliers for up to a year's inventory

20200121 Huawei logo, Trump, and Ren

Ren Zhengfei, Huawei's founder, has claimed the impact of any new US tech ban against China's biggest telecoms company "would not be very significant"  (Nikkei montage/Reuters)

CHENG TING-FANG and LAULY LI, Nikkei staff writers

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.

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