Arrest of Senior Huawei Executive Steps Up U.S.-China Confrontation

Senior Huawei Executive’s Arrest Steps Up U.S.-China Confrontation

Move challenges President Xi’s ambitions to make China a tech superpower

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BEIJING—The arrest of a senior executive of networking-gear maker Huawei Technologies Co. intensifies the confrontation in the already divisive China-U.S. negotiations on trade, striking at Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ambitions to make the country a tech superpower.

Huawei has been at the center of the spiraling rivalry between the U.S....

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