Don't just look at Huawei, ZTE also faced similar treatment last year. As result:

> ZTE will employ a compliance team at its expense for 10 years and hold two compliance forums in China as part of US settlement for violating export controls[0]

The U.S. maybe just trying to do the same to Huawei. But, if U.S. do this too much (maybe already), "Get rid of U.S. dependencies as much as possible" will be China's next goal.

There was a lots of people in China believes "The 'China CPU' is waste of money, Intel/ARM is good enough". Today, I don't see anybody can still say that out loud comfortably.

The potential good thing is, if China's investment on RISC-V[1] can eventually pays off, then maybe we will have some free and open ISA CPUs.

[0] https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2150310/zte-replace-board-...

[1] https://riscv.org/2019/03/technews-article-china-actively-de...

Your point about unfriendly nations not merely treating these corporations as non-combatant tools, but instead as legitimate targets, was very interesting.

But I don't see how the only way to fix this is to abolish all hierarchies. Having less jingoistic world leaders would be a start.

Because the US doesn't do business with one company?

I'm not sure I see that occurring for the reasons given.

I don't see how Huawei can become #1 international smartphone brand without having access to Google Play Store.

I guess that, in the worse case scenario, they will ship sone alternatives services and app store, like in China.

If they would do that with a smooth transition out of google services, I can see this working, as a lot of people don't care about google, as long as the phone works.

Things can change very quickly in that industry.

Google may not be as secure as some believe they are.

If Trump really cares about the trade deficit blocking US companies from access to China won't help.

There is a reason why economists don't like tariffs very much.