The plane chartered by the Chinese government carrying Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s CFO stranded in Canada for three years in an US-led investigation of Huawei’s misconduct, landed on Sept. 25 in Shenzhen, where the telecommunications giant is headquartered. Immediately, it precipitated a wave of punditry about China’s hardball tactics that eventually won her freedom, and a cacophony of chatter about its implication to the deteriorating Sino-U.S. relationship. Little attention, however, is paid to the real elephant in the room: Huawei’s true identity. As the world’s largest telecommunication equipment maker, Huawei has been trying to penetrate western markets in the past decade. Its ambitious campaign for global expansion, however, has largely stalled in recent years due to intervention by the U.S. government on suspicions of the company’s close ties to the Chinese government, a charge that the company vehemently denies. So far, the most effective defense the company has put up is …