US sanctions
The US sanctions have very little (if anything) to do with military activity - they are aimed at damaging China's industries ability to compete with US industries.
The big problem with Huawei networking equipment was that is was cheaper than Cisco's so Cisco went crying to the US politicians to get Huawei banned.
The USA - the country with the best government money can buy.
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