Going back in recent history, Huawei fell prey to the US-China trade war a couple of months ago when it was added to the so called Entity List. The reasoning provided then by the US Government was that the company posed a potential security risk. Its presence on that list meant that US companies such as Google that makes Android and even ARM that makes the underlying technology for most mobile chips would be forbidden from selling to Huawei. Just a couple of weeks ago, US President Donald Trump announced that it’s reversing its position on Huawei and that it will not be sanctioned after all.

Still, to this day, we are not completely certain about Huawei’s standing. It seems that the company is safe, but rumors also point out that it plans to unveil its own operating system, Hong Meng OS to the world alongside the new version of EMUI. Hong Meng OS does not rely on Android and might be the company’s plan B in case it is banned from doing business with US companies.