While Huawei’s smartphone sales may have skyrocketed in 2018, it’s fair to say that the company as a whole hasn’t had the best year. Governments across the globe have raised security concerns relating to Huawei’s equipment and in early December one of the company’s key executives was arrested. But according to a new report by Bloomberg, Huawei has a plan.

At the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen, China, it’s claimed that the smartphone giant has a secret research lab that’s rather ironically nicknamed “White House.” Here, engineers are said to be hard at work on what the company considers ...