Best Buy won’t sell Huawei phones, laptops, or smartwatches anymore

When US companies sell their phones and other electronic devices around the globe under the guise of free trade, that is OK. The world has to accept it. Even thou USG and its intelligence agencies have a proven track record of tampering the devices, pressuring companies to leave backdoors in software and hardware and spying on the planet.<p>Now that Chinese companies want to do the same under the same guise, that is not OK. USG is against it. Even thou there is no proof that the devices are tampered or backdoored. (I <i>assume</i> they are, but there is no proof.)<p>Funny how the same very thing that the US has invented for their imperial purposes (&quot;free-trade&quot;) when it was strong and alone in that position comes to bite the inventor in the arse now that China does the same.

This is completely fair. For anyone unawares of the obstacles purposefully enacted by the Chinese government, below is a non-comprehensive list:<p>1. Excessive tariffs on companies domiciled outisde China<p>2. Demanding IP transfer to China as a precondition to evening the playing filed<p>3. Demanding access to any and all data used by a corp., regardless of privacy of the users<p>4. Backing domestic companies with unlimited, unfair lines of credit<p>5 ....<p>It&#x27;s NOT a co-incidence that Facebook, Apple, Google, ... that dominate tech pretty much everywhere else lack a significant presence in China.

China is going to hit back hard at the US and it won&#x27;t be able to recover ...

From the US. I understand the paranoia, but the bottom line is most the silicon comes from China. If they want to backdoor stuff they can do it at a much lower level on ALL devices, even those without final assembly done in China for a US-based company.