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Is this like when we banned the Chinese electric cars because we dont feel like competing anymore?
More like when we forced the sale of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin and Larry Ellison.
Or women athletes because they were better at certain sports
They learned their lesson from this and Huawei, so now private companies are self censoring on behalf of the govt. That's why Colbert is losing his job and cutting edge Chinese phones don't work on American carriers despite being fully compatible.