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Were they really that prevalent in Chinese government anyway? I would assume they would be using China made phones already for the most part. If you look at the stock over the past 6 months look like it took a massive hit a little while back and my guess is things where already looks bad so they pumped it recently then the insiders dumped at the top and are blaming everything they can on the market failure. Sure, I mean, the ban from China isn't helping, but that recent pump up with this timing for the dump seems to coincidental to me.
Frankly, the only surprising thing to me is that China allowed government officials to use phones that aren't domestically produced.
What probably tipped them off was the US claiming that huawei equipment was spying on them. Given that all their claims are projection…
I imagine it was just something no one really thought about making an issue of till recently. Most of the time stuff isn't banned preemptively but reactively.
Exactly, also can't think of many cases off top of my head where US stuff got banned by other countries. It's practically always US doing the bans. The idea that China could ban a popular US product was likely inconceivable until now.
Same question here, I'm flabbergasted they were not already forbidden for use for government officials