A report by the South China Morning Post over the weekend alleged that Foxconn, the manufacturing giant best known in the West for assembling Apple’s iPhones, had recently stopped several production lines for Huawei phones after the company reduced orders for new handsets. The information came from anonymous “people familiar with the matter,” though whether this was a temporary pause or something more permanent wasn’t made clear.
Huawei didn’t immediately deny the report, but it now claims it to be false. “Huawei refutes these claims.