China’s Huawei Technologies has released a new series of 5G smartphones. The new phone is seen as a direct threat to Apple’s iPhone in China and also presents issues for the U.S. The new phone has found a way around the sanctions imposed by the U.S. on the company and presents the latest chapter in the so-called ‘chip wars’ between the U.S. and China.

Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes gets the latest from Mike Regan, senior editor at Bloomberg.

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