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"As of 2020, due to underinvestment, there is no credible Western alternative to Huawei, whose rise and adoption across broad swaths of Asia and Africa, and now Europe, has been subsidized as a national priority project of the People’s Republic of China." - to me that's a strange utterance considering 99% of global mobile OS are IOS or Android, two American innovations.

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Almost every packet they send, flows over layer 3,2 and 1 devices made by Huawei in most people's world. It used to be Nortel, Nokia, Ericsson and some others. The market moved.

Android and ios devices are made in China by Foxconn. Most peoples phones run on chipsets made in China

For Huawei, read "ipr here, but made there"

I think they meant in the context of 5G communication which is true. There isn't a competitive Western source of this technology which is why people was bitting Huawei in the first place.

But it's more complicated than that because a lot of patients of 5G is own by American companies. Technology is a very messy tangled web of cooperation and competitiveness.

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