Ren Zhengfei retired from the PLA before he founded Huawei. I don't see people accusing companies founded by US veterans of being "literally the US government".

Ren Zhengfei retired from the PLA before he founded Huawei. I don't see people accusing companies founded by US veterans of being "literally the US government". Yes the PRC is a single-party authoritarian state, but it has a whole set of laws defining private companies vs state-owned enterprises. The only concern about Huawei is that it cannot disobey Chinese government orders issued against Huawei's will. (Sounds familiar? All those companies that dropped Huawei due to an US government order? How so many were being apologists for Google because "Google didn't have a choice"?) Saying Huawei is "literally the Chinese government" without providing proof and asking us to simply follow the rhetoric by suspending all disbelief is a very lazy and dishonest tactic.