The plane chartered by the Chinese government carrying Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s CFO stranded in Canada for three years in an U.S.-led investigation of Huawei’s misconduct, landed on Sept. 25 in Shenzhen, where the telecommunications giant is headquartered. Immediately, it precipitated a wave of punditry about China’s hardball tactics that eventually won her freedom, and a cacophony of chatter about its implication to the deteriorating Sino-U.S. relationship.
Little attention, however, is paid to the real elephant in the room: Huawei’s true identity.