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I fully agree, but I don't think that getting Huawei "banned" (IP use rights blocked, etc.) was some sort of chess master grand move by the Chinese government. The US literally served them the excuse to accelerate this dramatically in a silver platter.

The US had its reasons, but other countries have been able to handle Huawei much better. E.g. the UK allegedly [0] found "backdoors" in Huawei hardware for the government, they let Huawei know, Huawei said "sorry about that", and they fixed it.

[0]: Huawei argued that the "backdoor" was actually debugging software, and the software was verified to only use Telnet..