Do not wake up a sleeping tiger. Yes, the United States has scored an own-goal by making China’s Huawei to decouple from America, and in the process restructured and redesigned its business. Before the big sanctions, Huawei depended on many American firms. They made money from Huawei and Huawei used their technologies to make money – call it win-win, the benefits of globalization to a large extent. Under sanctions, Huawei was forced to return to the basics. And now it is back: "Huawei has formally launched HarmonyOS NEXT, marking a definitive break from the Android ecosystem and representing a significant step in its quest for technological independence from Western platforms. The launch, announced on Wednesday, officially initiates public beta testing for the OS on select Huawei smartphones and tablets powered by the company’s Kirin and Kunpeng chips.” Notice, they have cut-off from Google's Android and Intel, AMD and Qualcomm chips. As that happens, Russia’s Putin dropped a line today: “We did not refuse nor fight the dollar, we were forbidden to use it … so we must look for alternatives” as BRICS pursues a US dollar alternative. Sanctions are tools but I am not sure how that is helping the US when you look at how the superpower is using sanctions to motivate its competitors, and inspire them to go and do big things. Of course, you can ask: who is this village boy offering a perspective on how America can use its sanction toolkit? Let me be….I am just a teacher! tekedia.com/huawei-breaks-co…