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pend the fraud charges against her. The
The China Initiative (from 10) indictment, house arrest and attempt to
extradite Meng to the U.S. resulted in
In its attempt to become the semiconduc- great acrimony from many quarters that
tor leader, several of its companies and felt the arrest was a purely political ploy
universities have been caught bending or by the Trump administration.
ignoring U.S. export rules.
Trade and tariffs
Telecom giant A key tool used by the U.S. against prod-
The best-known example is Huawei, Chi- uct dumping is the placement of high tar-
na’s largest telecom company. iffs on imported goods to protect domestic
suppliers.
In 2018, the Trump administration placed
an 18% tariff on solar cells and modules.
These modules were assembled in Malay-
sia, Thailand and Vietname, but the cells
were actually manufactured in China.
When the tariff came up for renewal last
year (and at the time of the tariff), many
organizations that support solar installa-
tion said the tariffs would devastate the
industry in the U.S.
This train, imported from Switzerland, transports Huawei em-
ployees to the Ox Horn campus, also known as “European Town”
by residents. It is the site of Huawei’s R&D Center. China supports universities
The Entity List China provides substantial economic sup-
Huawei, one of the largest global sellers of port to many of its universities through
smart phones and its affiliates was placed grants and direct monetary help. Two of
on the U.S. Commerce Department’s En- the best known are Tsinghua and Wuhan
tity list in May 2019 — essentially forbid- University of Technology (WUT).
ding the company to import its products
into the U.S. The best-known case probably belongs to
Dr. Charles Lieber. In December, a federal
The Commerce Dept. said Huawei violated jury convicted Lieber, 62, a nanotech pio-
the U.S. ban on selling products to Iran. In neer of lying about his connectionto China
2018, the U.S. Justice Dept. indicted Meng and the WUT.
Wanzhou, the Huawei’s CFO and daughter Last December a federal jury in Boston
of the founder Ren Zhengfei, for conspir- convicted Lieber, 62, a former Harvard
ing to steal trade secrets. Two Canadian professor and a nanotech pioneer, for lying
Huawei executives were also indicted. The about his connection to China and WUT.
case was later dismissed.
Lieber, who earlier was the chair of Har-
The Guardian later reported that Meng was vard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology
freed after serving three years of house Dept., was indicted in June 2020 with two
arrest in Canada. This followed an agree- Chinese nationals.
ment with the U.S. justice Dept. to sus- next page
