Here, I'll paste the quote that substantiates this entire story--
Vincent Pang (Huawei):
“There are some companies talking to us, but it would take a long journey to really finalize everything... they have shown interest."
The exec response can be coming from a variety of angles:
1) Reuters reached out and he simply provided a snippet of what is happening;
2) US firms are interested in the product;
3) US firms are interested in using this conversation to leverage negotiations with another party;
4) Whether they are getting little to no traction or some, Huawei may be trying to say "look, we are not nuclear, others are talking to us, you should too' to prop up interest and willingness via journalism.
Chinese companies pay a very large amount of licensing fees to American companies. Huawei itself has paid $6 billion in licensing fees since 2001, with 80% of the fees going to US companies.
Cannot do that because those patents are used by products they sell to each other.
Not recognising other countries' patents is really a possibility is you don't sell them anything similarly patented in return.
For example, the US could get away with not recognising foreign copyright at one point because they had no copyrighted material of their own to sell abroad.
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