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Re:Huawei Reveals the Real Trade War with China by mark_l_watson on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:21AM (#18634909)
“‘U.S. moves against Huawei and ZTE may be intended to force China to remain a cheap supplier instead of a threatening competitor.“‘

This is what I also first thought when hearing about the arrest. This is all about economic warfare. Long term, I think this will be bad for my country (USA) because this will induce China to continue a huge national program to develop home grown tech.

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Re:Huawei Reveals the Real Trade War with China by Lio on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:34AM (#18634944)
On the other hand China is already committed to undermining US market dominance anyway.

So maybe this just buys US industry a little more time.

Allowing a foreign competitor to grow to a dominant position by skirting sanctions or from profiting from state-sponsored industrial espionage is not good either.

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