China crisis: Should Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei partners be worried?

Doug Woodburn
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With Lenovo's shares languishing and ZTE being barred from buying US components, what are the implications of the current US-China trade war for the channel?

At the turn of the last decade, Chinese tech firms were riding high. Lenovo was poised to overtake HP to become the planet's largest PC vendor, while emerging mobile and comms vendors such as Hu...

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