True. But not anywhere near as bad as in a western country. You don't see Xi Jinping being eviscerated in Chinese media, or being forced to testify in front of

True. But not anywhere near as bad as in a western country. You don't see Xi Jinping being eviscerated in Chinese media, or being forced to testify in front of congress. Also telcos dont really care, and will continue to buy Huawei equipment if prices are low enough, unless governments outright ban them from doing so. I think Huawei, would have experienced almost the same blowback even if they didn't have any backdoor. Western intelligence experts, would have advised against using Huawei without any evidence of backdoors, simply because they know they would have put in backdoors if they where in the position of china, and they assume the Chinese aren't incompetent. The blow back also serves a political purposes for everyone around. Western politicians/military gets to say "We need to protect ourselves against scary China!". And China's propaganda machine gets to say "Look at the terrible racist west treating us unfairly, by accusing us of bad things without evidence!".