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I suspect the U.S. government prefers "these guys might suck, but at least they're our guys" as a threat model when the alternative is essentially a state-owned enterprise taking orders from one of America's largest geopolitical foes.

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Huawei is in an employee-owned company, no state involved.

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I know Huawei isn't literally a SOE (as far we can tell, anyway) but it has long-standing ties to the PLA, and the stark reality of modern-day China is that every large corporation in the country is effectively subservient to the CCP.