No frank hostility, but a lot of circumspection. "We welcome the announcements from Huawei positively , " commented Thursday at the Ministry of the Economy, "this shows that our reforms are bearing fruit and that France is an attractive territory . " For Huawei, however, the French state is not rolling out the red carpet as it does for other international investors.
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It is however not fault, on the part of the Chinese group, to have carried out multiple operations seduction vis-à-vis the executive. At the end of last December, Huawei announced its plans for industrial establishment in France. Its president took the pen, and it was Maurice Lévy, the president of Publicis, who agreed to forward his letter to the Élysée Palace, since it was addressed to Emmanuel Macron alone.
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If Huawei's goal was to short-circuit Bercy and Bruno Le Maire, known to be particularly wary of the Chinese group, it is a failure. Between the Élysée and Huawei, despite the efforts
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