Google Android in no longer a universal platform and moving forward, I doubt I'll ever buy anything again Google or US related again in terms of tech.
This si no longer a China vs US issue, it's the US vs the world.
Google Android in no longer a universal platform and moving forward, I doubt I'll ever buy anything again Google or US related again in terms of tech.
This si no longer a China vs US issue, it's the US vs the world.
Europeans are really critical of China and their policies (esp. their human rights record). But they don't like the US that much more (apart from the Brits) and with a struggling economy you really don't want to make them choose between money and ideology.
Anti-US circlejerk is mostly confined in Western europe (sans Brits). Eastern europe has totally different sentiment.
Yeah, wow, it must be completely impossible for someone without decades of US residency or decades of intense interest in the US to understand the US government!
I like to flatter myself that after 58 years of living in the US, I have recently started to be able to predict most of the major decisions of the US government. (Youtube videos of speeches and interviews by Peter Zeihan and George Friedman helped me in my understanding. Most of the senior editors and reporters at, e.g., the New York Times and the Washington Post, although passionately interested in the US government, have only a shallow understanding of it IMO.)
Even if democracy in West (or at home) is far from perfect, it's lightyears ahead of China.
So has the US though, even on it's allies as Snowden showed us.
In addition australia has the same stance as nearly every western country when it comes to Huawei, namely "only we get to spy on our people, so get out"
I'm sure that the EU/australia/the west is breathing a sigh of relief that Trump did this instead of forcing them to make up some more draconian law about foreign device mfg that would have unintended consequences.