Going Global

Abstract

This chapter looks at Huawei’s expansion into the global South in terms of its motivations, practices, and implications. The Huawei story reflects China’s rise as an indispensable actor in restructuring the global ICT infrastructure network system via exporting China’s experience and undercutting the Western dominance in the traditional political-economic order. However, it also has generated conflicts between state-backed Chinese corporate capital and local societies. This chapter tends to respond to the critiques on “China’s threat” with regard to China’s engagement in the global South.