"What kind of move is this?" one Weibo user said, as the Chinese telecom giant's much anticipated product event failed to give any new details on its 'sanctions-defeating' Mate 60 series

Afghan regime has consulted with Chinese telecom giant Huawei about potential cooperation on reconfiguring a mass surveillance network initially planned by the West

China’s Ministry of State Security made the claims in a report titled “Uncovering the main despicable means of cyberattacks and secret theft by US intelligence agencies”

Huawei’s planned event comes on the heels of Apple’s iPhone 15 launch event held on Tuesday, which received mixed reactions in China

The reported ban coincides with rising tensions between Beijing and Washington, and signals growing challenges for Apple

Apple's globally anticipated event to launch its latest iPhone 15 saw mixed reactions in China - the company's third largest market

While India and the US are not formal treaty-bound allies, Washington wants New Delhi to be a strategic counterweight to China

The proposed rules spurred a fall in shares in Hong Kong-listed Chinese tech firms, with Bilibili and Kuaishou plunging nearly 7% and 3.5% respectively

The move on Thursday could hit companies such as Apple, Dell and Samsung hard. Indeed, it appears aimed at forcing them to manufacture their products locally.

The Chinese telecom giant has fallen behind South Korea's Samsung in the country, where brick-and-mortar remain the bigger players in smartphone sales

Chinese analysts say Yellen's speech in April, which ranked national security interests as the top plank of America's bilateral economic policy, did not inspire optimism for the visit

The phone is the telecom giant’s latest attempt to tap into India’s massive and under-penetrated rural market where many are yet to migrate to smartphones