In this week’s installment of 3 Things we look at the broad reach of Huawei, the currency ambitions of Facebook and the global fight against cyberattacks.

Huawei
Your smartphone is like my couch. My couch is an Italian rip-off, made of Brazilian leather and assembled in China. Today, things are rarely assembled in one place from local goods — which is why attempts to target individual companies with trade restrictions can have far-reaching, and often unintended, implications.
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Douglas Warren is a co-founder of Walmer Road Writing. He’s a corporate writer with expert knowledge of financial markets, economics, insurance and commercial real estate.