The US government’s actions in terms of banning US companies from doing business with Huawei has made this quite clear.
The larger context is that the US and China have been involved in a protracted trade dispute imposing billions of dollars of tariffs on each other’s exports. Traditionally, US companies or companies from countries allied to the US have controlled virtually all the world’s networking and information technology systems.
Just about every major producer of processors and advanced microchips in the world is American — Intel, AMD and Qualcom — and without support from them, Chinese factories would struggle to produce computers, phones or anything else.
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