Verizon Dumps Huawei Phones as US Government Pressure Mounts

If cybersecurity is really the issue here then there are probably dozens, if not hundreds, of other devices manufactured in China posing quite a bigger risk.

Cheap pedometers, drones (including their control apps), straight up USB storage sticks and all the cheap IoT devices like cameras and whatnot are pretty much all manufactured in China.

A smartphone might yield the biggest results, it's among the devices drawing most of the security scrutiny for exactly that reason.

While something like a $5 pedometer isn't even considered an attack vector by the vast majority of people, just like downloading an App by the vendor one bought a cheap drone off, but if I wanted to spread something on a large scale I'd use exactly devices like that (cheap and produced in abundance) instead of using a $400+ smartphone with a rather well-established brand behind it.