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lmao good luck finding a Chinese phone that doesn't have a hardware backdoor
Are there any reliable sources for this? And if so: If China wanted to implement hardware backdoors, it would probably not only affect chinese brands:
China still produced more than one billion smartphones in 2022, roughly 70-80 percent of the global total.
source: https://www.asiapacific.ca/publication/despite-de-risking-chinas-role-global-smartphone-supply
Apple sells more than 220 million iPhones a year and by most estimates, nine in 10 are made in China. From the glossy screens to the battery packs, it's here that many of the components in an Apple product are made, sourced and assembled into iPhones, iPads or Macbooks. Most are shipped to the US, Apple's largest market.
source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx17361pw1o
And I suspect (people with a deeper understanding please correct me) it would be quite difficult to completely rule out hardware backdoors in modern electronic devices:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies