Huawei’s Role in the China-Russia Technological Partnership

Lauren Dudley is a Research Associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

This is the third part of a series on Huawei’s expansion in Russia as a reaction to geopolitical technology tensions.

Growing global technology tensions have led Huawei to make a bet on Russia. This strategy—while largely driven by Huawei being pushed out of the West—is also catalyzed by Chinese and Russian government support for bilateral science and technological (S&T) cooperation.