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How Huawei went from small-time trader in Shenzhen to world’s biggest telecoms equipment supplier
Background Information
The news describe the growth of Huawei since 2004 until now, as the biggest telecoms equipment supplier in the world now. Huawei is currently facing a huge problem that a US-led campaign is blocking their company, which is threatening its biggest overseas market.
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This is propaganda because
This is a news report showing to Chinese readers, Huawei as a Chinese company, usually people would support the side of Huawei. In the news, the writer has praised the great effort and social responsibilities that Huawei as a company has achieved. For example, Huawei has contributed a lot during the Sichuan Earthquake in 2018 and Tohoku Earthquake in 2011. At the same time, it described the Us-led campaign to block Huawei as a political affair picking on Chinese companies, which is bad and should be stopped. It responds to most of the Chinese reader's needs and fits main stream opinion. Therefore it is probably a propaganda.
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