The U.S. Has Huawei in Cuffs. China Has the U.S. in Chains
Here’s a vision of how things might look if Beijing decides to retaliate by leveraging its dominance of the supply chain for American companies.
Beijing has multiple ways to make life difficult for American companies.
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Imagine you’re a product engineer for a U.S. device brand based in China. You’ve had to submit your passport for annual visa renewal.
Without it, you can’t travel. And with heightened concerns over security and a crackdown on VPNs (which enable users to bypass Chinese censorship of the internet) your company has decreed that all sensitive product discussions be done in-person back at HQ. But that visa renewal is taking a long time and you’re stuck in Shanghai, with your product cycle being extended by the day.