Beijing put Huawei’s secret chip lab on national TV two days before Trump arrives. The message wasn’t for Chinese viewers.
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Beijing broadcast Huawei’s secret chip lab on prime-time TV two days before Trump’s state visit, signalling that US export controls have consolidated China’s semiconductor ambitions under a national champion the US cannot reach.
On Friday evening, China Central Television’s most-watched news programme broadcast footage that has never been shown publicly. The Chip Fundamental Technology Research Laboratory at Huawei’s Lianqiu Lake campus in Shanghai appeared on Xinwen Lianbo, the state-run bulletin that reaches more than 200 million viewers nightly, in a segment showing Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei hosting Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang at the facility. The broadcast did not disclose what the laboratory is developing. It did not need to. The timing said everything the technical details did not.
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