In September 2026, a post on X (formerly Twitter) claiming that Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and his daughter/CFO Meng Wanzhou’s family had fled China went viral, sparking discussion in a thread on 5ch’s “Live News G” board. The post also claimed that “military police are surrounding the outside of Huawei’s headquarters,” but there has been no official statement, and commenters in the thread were quick to say things like “isn’t this fake news?” Meng Wanzhou was detained in Canada in 2018 and returned to China in 2021, and this latest “fled the country” theory is widely being read as an extension of that history.
Translated from Chinese
Breaking news! Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei and Meng Wanzhou’s family have fled China!
Still confirming the details. No wonder there are so many military police surrounding Huawei HQ.
Guess we can finally buy Huawei with a clear conscience now
5AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:42
Replies are calling this total fake news, so which is it?
10AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:44
Why would they even flee?
Were they secretly a US double agent or something?
11AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:44
This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when someone's trying to cling to power
12AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:44
Go team up with Honor again and become the world's strongest phone maker
13AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:44
If they really fled, they'd get nabbed at the airport or somewhere like that
16AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:45
Faaaaaaar-
68AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:26
Reply to Re: #16: Huh, that's fewer than I'd have guessed
19AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:46
So "Huawei" really went "far away," huh (pun: Huawei/ファーウェイ sounds like "far away" in Japanese)
78AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:29
Reply to Re: #19: Heh, that got a little chuckle out of me
27AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:51
Wait, is this the one about the Chinese AI that got caught cheating?
28AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:52
Turns out a Chinese AI got caught just copy-pasting answers wholesale from a foreign AI
30AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:53
A company that almost got crushed by the US and now might get crushed by China too — what even is this
31AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:53
The Huawei phone I used to own was really solid
32AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:53
Lol
Banned from Android and watched by your own government — rough life all around
33AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:55
Kind of impressive they built phones that good while getting hassled by both the US and China…
35AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:56
So it really is true that once a company gets too big, it becomes a threat to the Chinese Communist Party and gets taken down
Alibaba's Jack Ma fled the country too, after all
36AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:56
Galaxy's basically the only real Android choice left now
Well, poor folks can just settle for a Pixel I guess
65AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:23
Reply to Re: #36: "Junk-droid," lol (pun on Android/おんぼろ, meaning "beat-up")
Any decent executive would be on iPhone anyway
38AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:57
Is this the one where they claimed they built their own domestic AI, but it turned out they just repurposed another company's AI as-is, and confidential info leaked out in the process?
43AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:01
Reply to Re: #38: This is so ridiculous, lol
77AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:29
Reply to Re: #38: People are still buying this fake news?
39AnonymousSep 14, 2026 11:57
Now why on earth would military police be there…
44AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:01
Whatever happened to Jack Ma anyway
I heard once he was put under house arrest he just stopped criticizing anything entirely
47AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:02
Reply to Re: #44: He's in Japan. Holds a professorship, but it's basically exile by another name
51AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:13
Oh, so is Huawei finally moving into the US then?
If you operate out of China the US just squeezes you for it
So the argument goes: should've just set up shop in the US from the start
58AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:19
Reply to Re: #51: But in the US you don't get access to near-free labor like you do in China
82AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:31
Why didn't the government just keep backing Huawei as a national champion until it could go toe-to-toe with Apple and Samsung?
Before anyone noticed, Xiaomi took over its spot, plus a bunch of other crazy high-spec Chinese brands nobody's even heard of showed up — now you barely hear "Huawei" at all
107AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:55
Reply to Re: #82: The original state-owned one was actually ZTE — Huawei has a history of moving overseas early specifically to escape that kind of situation 🤔
83AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:32
Commercial flight… no way the whole family gets through boarding
Private jet… no way it's allowed to take off
By sea to Taiwan… they wouldn't take them in, it'd just hand China an excuse
By sea to the Philippines… China's influence there is too strong, they'd be sent straight back
By sea to Japan… since they're under US sanctions, Japan hands them to the US, not China
90AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:38
Reply to Re: #83: There's still the overland route
88AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:34
They'll just get "disappeared" 😨
93AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:39
Reply to Re: #88: They won't get rid of them
They'll put them on display
89AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:36
It's a massive company though
Is this even remotely plausible?
91AnonymousSep 14, 2026 12:38
Reply to Re: #89: They've got plenty of motive to want out, but actually pulling it off is nearly impossible
Especially getting the entire family out
Background and key points of this story
The source of this claim is an unverified post on X, and no official statement has been confirmed from either Huawei or Chinese authorities. Meng Wanzhou was detained in Canada in 2018 and, following extradition proceedings involving the US, returned to China in 2021 — a history that makes it easy for people to connect this “fled the country” theory to her past. In the thread, Alibaba’s Jack Ma also came up as an example of a founder of an overgrown Chinese company being reined in by the authorities, but Ma merely stepped back from public life — it was never confirmed that he fled the country. Also, the claim mentioned partway through, that “a Chinese AI reused another company’s AI’s answers,” is an unrelated rumor, and it gets shot down later in the thread. Readers should keep in mind this is fast-moving, unverified information.
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