"is a good and important thing towards self determination" This is a lark? The only thing the CPC is interested in is total and absolute control of the citize

"is a good and important thing towards self determination" This is a lark? The only thing the CPC is interested in is total and absolute control of the citizenry. They'd love to have a platform for which they didn't have to monitor with gazillions of staff, and have police on corners to ensure 'government monitoring' is properly installed. Imagine if the CPC could ensure total thought control without all the overhead? That is exactly the objective. There's nothing stopping 1 billion people from developing a mobile platform - or any kind of platform for that matter in 2019. They can do it now. Or yesterday. And the 'whole world' could be using it. Consider for a moment why it's not happening? Why isn't the entire world using software or hosted solutions for all of our SaaS needs in India and China? Given that the existential nature of the Chinese economy is intertwined with the CPC, I don't think any good will come of this. A lot of the comments and thinking abound 'trade with China' are centered around a view that it's a normal economy, but it isn't, so the regular rules don't quite apply. In the grand grand scheme of things, Huawei is a small thing, we're seeing a realignment of forces given the new reality of China's competitive powers, irrespective of anything else. It's hard to say where the new equilibrium will land.