> What is the difference? To not buy branded Chinese phones seems just protectionism and has little to do with security. How does "protectionism" have anything

> What is the difference? To not buy branded Chinese phones seems just protectionism and has little to do with security. How does "protectionism" have anything to do with this? It's weird to inject that economic framing into a question about what kind of policies you want to be subject to, and who you want to be setting those policies.