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Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it’s going next. Huawei Technologies Co. quietly spent months racing to stockpile critical radio chips ahead of Trump administration sanctions, ensuring it can keep supplying Chinese carriers in their $170 billion rollout of 5G technology through at least 2021. PartnerTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. began ramping up output in late 2019 of Huawei’s 7-nanometerTiangang communications chips, the most crucial element in 5G base stations, people familiar with the matter said. The Taiwanese contract manufacturer eventually shipped more than 2 million units at Huawei’s behest ahead...
