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Yeah, the CCP is still going to catch up to them and when they move to cut R&D for profit, will pass them.
The car industry is proof of that.
The "CCP" didn't catch up with and surpass the US market in electric vehicles, Chinese engineers and industrialists did. BYD, Xiaomi, Zeekr, Great Wall, etc. etc. etc. are not branches of government. I mean sure, government industrial policy was there, but it was there in the USA as well (and is a huge proportion of Kaptain Ketamine's "personal" wealth). It's just that American companies are addicted now to government protectionism and forgot how to compete by price, by innovation, etc. while BYD was inventing world-class battery technology and vertical integration (that is for some reason anathema to American business practice).
The People's Liberation Army directs huge amounts of industrial development, just like the Pentagon does in the US, and probably equally corruptly.
Sure. Just like how Huawei has no connection to the CCP?
Same as Texaco and Reagan, Raytheon and Bush, SpaceX and Trump.
Do you think the world doesn't see the corruption in all the above?
For the record I would rather Merica and China fight to the death so the rest of the world can get a break.
And leave your hands away from Cuba and Taiwan.
Thats a stupid argument, if you're making it as a point "USA companies are not influenced by USA government and don't suck its dick".
Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, Google are large companies known to be regulated by the USA government and to spy on its behalf (e. g. Cloud act, PRISM). Add communications like Verizon and AT&T for domestic (bulk data handovers, see Snowden).
You understand that the very use of "CCP" pretty much marks you as someone completely and utterly ignorant of anything other than Faux News and US government propaganda, right?
How 'bout you come back with this fancy thing called "evidence" of Huawei's "connection" to the Chinese government that—and this is the important bit here, Sparky!—can't be equivalently applied to almost every major US firm vis a vis the US government? (Hint: this is not possible. American companies are as balls-deep in American government trade policy and even military/espionage hooks as Chinese firms are in Chinese government trade and military/espionage policy.)