Donald Trump has not been shy about celebrating the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Russian government. While much of the U.S. corporate media and Trump’s political opponents rushed to judgment on the matter, Mueller’s investigation found that Trump and his campaign did not engage in any collusion with Russia.

But while those who were convinced of the now disproved ties between Trump and Moscow are left in an embarrassing position, Donald Trump should be careful of the false accusations he has leveled against Huawei.

Huawei is the world's second-largest maker of smartphones after the China-based private company overtook the American company Apple in 2018. Huawei is also at the forefront of developing revolutionary 5G technology that has already been tested in successful remote surgical operations on human patients. 

5G technology as pioneered by Huawei is set to open new possibilities in the fields of medicine, education, art, infrastructural development in emerging markets, mass communication and business thanks to the ultra-fast user-friendly speeds. 

As such, many countries are looking to partner with Huawei in order to build reliable 5G networks, just as Huawei is behind some of the world’s top 4G networks that are currently in operation from Asia to Europe and from Latin America to Africa. But for Donald Trump and his colleagues, Huawei is not a successful company but an "agent of espionage" that is aimed at weakening the United States. If such bizarre accusations sound familiar in the context of Trump, it is because the accusations are as conspiratorial as those which falsely claimed that Trump and his American family were "Russian agents."

But while the Russia scandal damaged American political prestige, the even more outrageous Huawei issue looks to damage the freedoms of American consumers and businesses. Although the United States likes to preach the values of economic openness, when it comes to Huawei and indeed when it comes to wider issues of supporting a rules-based trading system, it is China that is practicing the openness that the U.S. has traditionally enjoyed preaching.

In attempting to both ban and smear Huawei, Washington is damaging the livelihoods of its own people and their businesses by preventing them from openly accessing the technology which may be best placed to serve their future needs. By contrast, Apple products are widely available and indeed are popular throughout China. The same is true of the U.S. flagship automaker Cadillac which now sells more units in China than in any other country in the world. 

In order to combat what amounts to a political witch hunt against Huawei, the company has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court in order to fight the ugly rumors about its products that thus far have not resulted in any abnormalities in spite of their use across the world, including in many countries that are close U.S. allies. 

As Huawei's lawsuit asserts that the singling out of Huawei by the U.S. government is in violation of the U.S. Constitution, it is a Chinese company that is now attempting to uphold the values of openness inscribed into U.S. law which are being ignored by an overly protectionist Trump White House.

There is no telling when the court case will conclude, but when it does, Trump may find that the tables will have been turned and that he will be embarrassed after having accused a Chinese company of seeking to do something to America that it has no desire to do and no proven capability of being able to do.