• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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    1 year ago

    Frankly, the only surprising thing to me is that China allowed government officials to use phones that aren’t domestically produced.

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      1 year ago

      What probably tipped them off was the US claiming that huawei equipment was spying on them. Given that all their claims are projection…

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      1 year ago

      I imagine it was just something no one really thought about making an issue of till recently. Most of the time stuff isn’t banned preemptively but reactively.

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        1 year ago

        Exactly, also can’t think of many cases off top of my head where US stuff got banned by other countries. It’s practically always US doing the bans. The idea that China could ban a popular US product was likely inconceivable until now.