> If Huawei is copying they will always lag behind. I think the cause-effect here is reversed. They are copying because they're behind, in this particular area

> If Huawei is copying they will always lag behind. I think the cause-effect here is reversed. They are copying because they're behind, in this particular area. No doubt they're vigorously defending their own IP in 5G. Companies, countries, individual race car drivers all slipstream when they're behind. It's a matter pragmatism and economics, not of morality and principles. Recall that Steve Jobs considered Android itself "a stolen product".