Steve Dickinson, writing for China Law Blog, suggested the Huawei case is a sign foreign companies and governments are increasingly unafraid of retaliation if they take action on Chinese intellectual-property theft. “With the deterioration of US-China relations, this concern seems to be melting away and decades of pent-up resentment against China’s IP practices could well spill out in a cascade of claims from the US and the EU and others,” he wrote.