Huawei Executive Says Automakers and Suppliers Need Deeper Collaboration

Huawei's pushback against profit-capture claims is really an argument about industry structure: as margins compress, the dividing line between automaker and supplier becomes a negotiating position rather than a fixed rule. The "not every link must be self-developed" framing matters most to smaller carmakers weighing costly in-house software and systems work against reliance on a dominant technology partner. Whether that cooperation model spreads, or whether automakers keep hedging toward self-development to protect their margins, is the open question.