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"Free trade" with China ended many years ago. Just look what they did with Huawei in pretense of security.

If that's free trade - then I'm Santa Klaus

Well yeah, if you have firmware access on a device you can use it to intercept. That’s basic infosec.

That’s a very different matter from the CCP stealing IP or even entire companies.

I think "Stealing IP" phase finished for China a long time ago. Like for Japan of 70s

I can speak only from my experience.

In 2000s we heard that Huawei GSM is copycat of Erricson and Huawei CDMA is Qualcomm.

I had very limited experience with both GSM and CDMA switches - I saw nothing similar.

I can't say for sure about CDMA but Huawei GSM was certainly different from Erricson switches I saw

> I think "Stealing IP" phase finished for China a long time ago.

Camera footage helps both your examples a fair bit.