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How about China blocking the sale of Apple products... possible/probable?

The government doesn't need to. The Chinese population will decide if they want to drop Apple themselves. They already have basically stopped buying Samsung after the S7 issue and the US military base.

The free market in action...

S7? Did you mean Note 7?

Yep.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/16/samsung-galaxy-recall-china/ The battery was different but had a similar problem - https://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/2026800/samsun...

The Chinese government already does. The state controlled media puts out massive amounts of propaganda railing foreign firms.

The same could be said for the US in the case of Hauwei but China is far worse on this front.

Do you have any actual examples?

Chinese TV & newspapers spend most of their time speaking about how good China and Chinese companies are rather than caring about US companies. Lots of Chinese people are not aware of the "trade war".

I'm not asking for many just 1 recent example.

Just like oligarchy controlled media puts out massive amount of propaganda here.

Wasn't that the case up until just a few years ago?

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