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> The CCP have already throughly demonstrated that they don’t need manufactures consent to build these systems.

It was obviously merely an example for illustration purposes by the parent. To get a point across it's often very helpful to use a stark, clear example.

Few governments will ever have the extraordinary capabilities and resources of the CCP in China.

For the other ~190 governments that will never reach that level of capability, what they might have now is a globe-spanning billion-device corporation like Apple more willing to assist them.