The cycle of quarterly results announcements has come around again, and all the three biggest mobile equipment vendors’ statements reflected their challenges – some shared, some individual. Of course, Huawei’s are the most dramatic and its rotating chairman Ken Hu acknowledged, in a keynote at the company’s Global Analyst Summit last week, that this year could be even worse than the last two. “We believe that in 2022 we are actually facing more daunting challenges, given the external environment,” Hu said. “Survival is the utmost goal for the company. Without survival then the visions and dreams that we talk about can only be empty talk and that makes it our priority.” Geopolitical tensions with the USA’s bloc of allies have…