Huawei was banned by Trump but has since reinvented itself and is now looking at all-electric smart cars and AI

Customers in a Huawei flagship store in Beijing, China, on September 25th, 2023, after the company unveiled new products including a Mate60 Pro phone. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Starting in 1972, UNIDO (a United Nations agency) hosted a series of training courses in Shannon on national strategies for export processing zones. In 1980 eight Chinese led by Jiang Zemin, a senior vice-minister, attended as part of a six-nation global tour of special economic zones. Returning to China, Jiang persuaded the Premier, Deng Xiaoping, to commence a special zone in Shenzhen, at the time a small regional city of about 300,000….