India, Jan. 8 -- In another sign that 2021 may not be so different from 2020, Huawei is already dominating the news cycle.

So far this year the big vendor has offered to advise the Australian government on 6G and has found an unexpected Swedish ally in Ericsson.

Now it's been revealed that Chinese negotiators in the EU-China investment treaty made a last-minute effort to punish countries that had placed restrictions on Huawei.

The Chinese side introduced an eleventh-hour clause that would exclude countries with Huawei bans from eased access to China's cloud market, South China Morning Post reports.

Punitive action

Under the new treaty, known as the CAI, China is allowing EU companies to own up to 50% of a data centers and cloud busin...