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At the end of 2023, Huawei officially announced that it would build its first overseas factory in France in 2025. After this news came out, it soon caused a thousand waves.
You must know that France is not friendly to Huawei because of the influence of the United States, and even announced the removal of as many as 3,000 antennas from Huawei.
Huawei's official announcement of the construction of overseas factories in France undoubtedly means that France's attitude has changed 180 degrees. So what is it that has prompted such a radical change in attitudes in France?
The United States cracked down on Huawei's 5G industry
Since the beginning of the new century, China has made a series of proud achievements in the development of the 5G communication industry. In particular, China's Huawei has made remarkable achievements in high-tech fields such as 5G chips and systems.
In 2019, Huawei officially announced the Kirin 980, its first 5G chip, marking a milestone breakthrough in the field of 5G chips in China.
However, the rapid development of the mainland in the field of 5G communication has attracted the "attention" of the United States on the other side of the ocean. Since Huawei officially announced its first 5G chip, the United States has been bent on restricting China's development in this field.
To this end, the United States issued an "ultimatum" to its allies. They are required to cut off all cooperation with Huawei and not allow the use of Huawei products in the future.
In addition to uniting their own allies to "isolate" Huawei. The United States itself has also adopted technological blockade and economic sanctions to encircle and intercept Huawei.
Even in the U.S. market, no Huawei brand products are allowed.
It was at this time that France was influenced by the United States, which not only unilaterally terminated the cooperation agreement it had signed with Huawei, but also announced that it would dismantle Huawei's 3,000 antennas in France.
Now, however, France has uncharacteristically partnered with Huawei, allowing it to open overseas factories in its territory. With such a great contrast in attitudes, why did France's position and attitude change?
Why is there such a contrast in France's attitudes?
The reason why France's attitudes are so different is that they find that banning Huawei products is a completely false proposition for France.
At the beginning, after unilaterally tearing up the cooperation agreement with Huawei, France could only choose to cooperate with brands such as Nokia and Ericsson to maintain the normal development of the domestic 5G communication industry.
However, with the deepening of cooperation with these two companies, France gradually found that Nokia and Ericsson's products are not only expensive to use, but also far inferior to Huawei in terms of technological advancement.
As a country dominated by tourism and luxury industries, France has not been particularly good at research and development in communication technology.
Therefore, if France wants to "get a piece of the pie" in the field of 5G communications, and even get involved in the higher-level 6G field in the future, it must cooperate with other companies.
However, after severing cooperation with Huawei, France found that relying on Nokia and Ericsson, there was no way to make France's 5G industry develop positively.
What's more, Huawei has been cooperating with Huawei since 2003, and for a long time, French communication systems have used Huawei's technology patents.
After the end of the cooperation with Huawei, although Nokia and Ericsson also have corresponding technology patents, they are far from being comparable with Huawei in terms of technology maturity and quantity, and cannot fill the gap in the field of communication technology in France.
Therefore, for France, the ban on Huawei products is a completely false proposition, and without the help of Huawei's patents, the development of France's communications industry may be difficult to move forward.
Not only France, but also many European countries influenced by the United States feel the same way.
At first, when the United States asked its European allies to cut off cooperation with Huawei, it claimed that Huawei sold products with so-called "security backdoors" that would steal user information.
However, the reality is that these European countries know very well that France, for example, has never had any security problems in the 20 years of cooperation with Huawei.
In contrast, it is Apple in the United States that has been frequently exposed to install "backdoors" on mobile phones to steal users' personal privacy and information.
In addition, after the termination of cooperation with Huawei, the development of the communications industry in many European countries has come to a standstill due to the lack of corresponding technology.
This phenomenon has made many European countries "bitter". The United States has advanced 5G technology, so it can naturally sit firmly in the Diaoyutai, but in the long run, European countries will definitely not be able to bear it.
Because of this, after weighing the pros and cons, France decisively made the choice to change its attitude towards Huawei, and quickly reached a consensus with Huawei to welcome Huawei to open overseas factories in France.
Ignoring the US blockade and going to the world
In fact, China and France have always maintained good relations.
As early as 1964, China and France established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, and France can be regarded as one of the first countries in Western Europe to establish diplomatic relations with China.
After the formal establishment of diplomatic relations, China and France have carried out friendly and in-depth cooperation in many fields.
For example, at the beginning of the reform and opening up in 1978, the French fashion master Pierre Cardin walked the catwalk in China, bringing the concepts of "fashion consciousness" and "advanced productivity" to China's garment industry for the first time.
In the same year, France reached a cooperation agreement with China, becoming the first country willing to sell nuclear power plants and transfer nuclear power technology to China.
Therefore, the cooperation between China and France is actually very deep, so Huawei's construction of an overseas factory in France can be regarded as a natural fit.
In an exclusive interview with France International News Radio, Zhang Minggang, the project leader, told reporters that the overseas factory will be built in Brumas, Lower Rhine in the Alsace region of northeastern France, and will be mainly used to produce 5G equipment for European countries.
Huawei is expected to invest up to 200 million euros in the overseas factory, which will directly create at least 300 jobs in France.
Therefore, this cooperation can be called a real win-win cooperation for Huawei and France.
In fact, since Huawei's breakthrough in the Kirin 9000S chip, the United States has become more and more anxious. It not only increased the technological blockade of Huawei, prohibiting the export of chip technology and lithography machines to Huawei, but also asked its allies to increase the degree of "isolation" of Huawei.
However, it turns out that such efforts by the United States will only end up in vain. Just like this change in France's attitude, even America's allies will weigh the pros and cons in the face of Huawei's absolute hard power.
With the completion of Huawei's overseas factories in the future, Huawei's 5G products are bound to seize a large number of European markets and gradually go global.
This is undoubtedly announcing to the world that no matter how much the United States blocks and suppresses, China's Huawei can overcome all difficulties, break through the US blockade, and finally go to the world!
What do you think about Huawei's construction of overseas factories in France?