The company is growing stronger—and less vulnerableIllustration: Julia KuoRen Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, often talks of his firm’s clashes with America in military parlance. “It’s time to pick up the guns, mount the horses and go into battle,” he said in an internal meeting in 2018. In a memo the following year he encouraged staff to tie ropes to Huawei’s figurative tanks and help drag them onto the battlefield.The martial talk is understandable: Huawei has been under attack from America f...