Huawei’s MWC display of strength, unveiling a raft of new products and services, as well as winning a pile of media awards and increasing the size of its already enormous stand, has underlined the failure of US-led efforts to hobble the company towards the end of the first Trump Presidency. Huawei explained that it prefers to avoid making geopolitical statements, and allow its products and technologies to speak for themselves. There was also a sense of reaching out in collaboration, including US companies like Qualcomm whose executives were circulating within the stand, again to underline that it has no wish for a fragmented technological world and is keen to build bridges. Yet the company was not averse to controversy, joining…