This can be summarized as "The Chinese Government Supports Huawei" + a lot of appeals to authority and claims of refusals to answer arbitrary questions that US companies certainly wouldn't answer if China asked.
The US government supports Cisco, and its diplomats are used to sell Cisco products. The forced replacement of Huawei equipment is an example of that.
If China were doing diplomacy and passing legislation that made US products illegal internationally, it would be worse than any of the accusations made here against China.
Only if you're already convinced that China and its people are evil, and that their winning an economic war against the US is a sign of the end times, will this reasoning convince you. China has triple the population of the US; it should be doing better.
The Chinese people aren't evil. One can reasonably argue, however, that the CCP is. The greatest victim of the CCP has been and continues to be the Chinese people, who live in a dystopian surveillance state controlled by an authoritarian ruler who has fashioned himself as a new Mao and uses whatever tactics he deems appropriate to crush political threats, suppress dissent, and eliminate ethnic and religious minorities.
I have been living in Asia and for the past several years have lived approximately 100 miles away from the Chinese shores in a free and democratic country that is in grave danger because a man who can't stand being compared to a cartoon character and his sycophants believe that it belongs to them.
The US is not the land of saints, but to anyone who feels the urge to engage in whataboutism regarding China, I encourage you to read about the history of the CCP, what it has done and continues to do to the Chinese and Tibetan people, its ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs and what its goals are for the Indo-Pacific.
> China has triple the population of the US; it should be doing better.
Doing better by what metric? Look at China's GDP per capita. The country is desperately trying to escape the middle income trap and a lot of the growing tensions in the region are related to the fact that the real picture of what's happening in China is not as pretty as the one the CCP projects.
one doesn't have to be convinced that someone is "evil" in order to not trust them.
>This can be summarized as "The Chinese Government Supports Huawei" + a lot of appeals to authority and claims of refusals to answer arbitrary questions that US companies certainly wouldn't answer if China asked.
how can you make this statement while ignoring the difference is basic relationship fundamentals between US corporations and the US government, and Chinese corporations and the Chinese government? the two are nowhere near equivalent.
The US government supports Cisco, and its diplomats are used to sell Cisco products. The forced replacement of Huawei equipment is an example of that.
If China were doing diplomacy and passing legislation that made US products illegal internationally, it would be worse than any of the accusations made here against China.
Only if you're already convinced that China and its people are evil, and that their winning an economic war against the US is a sign of the end times, will this reasoning convince you. China has triple the population of the US; it should be doing better.