I would agree if this announcement is made by another company but not Huawei. You will understand why I saw this as a PR stunt if you are actually at the conference. Huawei did not bring tech or products, only embargoed press releases, recruitment ads and HRBPs.
So acccording to the WH, after 250 years of fighting against the idea of a monarchical system, US is now officially a monarchy. Long live His Majesty King Trump.
With hindsight, this incident sounds alarm to all AI firms in China - start your GR with NDRC's very secretive AI team.
But heck, where to start? NDRC never make their rolodex public, and the deputy minister in charge of AI (the you-know-who) is almost living in recluse.