“If the lights go out in the west, the east will still shine… America doesn’t represent the world.”
When Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei said those words, the Western media and their political masters in Washington likely chuckled, dismissing it as the defiant rambling of a dying man. They were busy writing their gleeful obituaries, convinced their campaign of sanctions and blacklists had finally delivered the “lethal blow.” CNN, Forbes, Fortune — the whole chorus line of establishment media eagerly declared a “death sentence” for the Chinese tech giant, certain that by “starving it” of chips, they could kill the competition and preserve their fading technological supremacy.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the funeral: Huawei refused to die. The first six months of 2025 have served as a humiliating lesson for the West. Washington’s campaign of sabotage created a self-sufficient technological titan building a parallel universe free from American control.
They tried to kill Huawei’s software? On May 8, 2025, Huawei officially launched its HarmonyOS PC, completely severing ties with Microsoft Windows. Just weeks later, they unveiled the MateBook Fold Ultimate Design, an 18-inch foldable PC so innovative it makes the MacBook look like a relic.
They tried to kill Huawei’s hardware? In February, they launched the world’s first triple-folding smartphone, the Mate XT, followed by the revolutionary Pura X clamshell in March. Each launch was a defiant middle finger to the sanctions meant to crush them.
The world is being forced to notice. While Washington politicians were busy grandstanding.. the global tech community was busy handing Huawei awards. At MWC 2025 alone, they scooped up 33 media awards. Prestigious bodies like iF Design and Red Dot honored their products.
And for the second year in a row, TIME Magazine had to grudgingly place Huawei on its list of the “100 Most Influential Companies,” right alongside the very American companies that lobbied for its demise.
The market has spoken even louder. In the first quarter of 2025, Huawei achieved an almost unbelievable 76.6% market share in the crucial foldable phone segment while reclaiming the top spot in the overall smartphone market for the second consecutive quarter.
Let’s be clear: what Huawei has built is far more than a corporate comeback story; it’s the dawn of a post-Western technological order. When a single company, targeted for annihilation by a superpower, achieves complete technological sovereignty—spanning its own semiconductors, operating systems, AI frameworks, and cloud infrastructure—it’s a world-changing event. The very idea of Western technological hegemony is rendered obsolete. So when Huawei’s chairman speaks of building “a solid second option for the world,” understand it for what it is: the most polite-sounding declaration of war imaginable. This isn’t just a choice between Android or HarmonyOS; it’s an escape route for any nation tired of having its digital future held hostage by Washington’s sanctions and riddled with American spy agency backdoors. They didn’t just fail to kill Huawei; they created the very alternative that will make them irrelevant.
The world no longer needs the West’s permission to innovate. Their control is gone.
