Of course, the former CIA director was used to such formulations and accusations, so it was not difficult for Mike Pompeo to call Huawei’s market transactions “predatory actions”. All investments of the Chinese company, he claims, are aimed at satisfying the interests of the ruling apparatus of the PRC, not business. Pompeo called on all countries to block Huawei Technologies’ actions. In his opinion, European countries should unite with the United States in countering the foreign activity of the Chinese Communist Party.

It is this attitude of the US authorities that have prevented Huawei from avoiding economic sanctions for the second year already. The UK and France, under pressure from the US, have already removed telecommunications equipment from their 5G networks. Taiwanese TSMC has stopped supplying semiconductor components for Huawei’s needs since mid-September. It is believed that next year, due to the sanctions, Huawei will be able to sell four times fewer smartphones than this year. The stock of components will last for a period from several months to a year, according to various sources, but in the future, Huawei will inevitably feel the consequences of sanctions restrictions at the production level.