Presently, the Trump administration is engaged in an aggressive, global trade war with China, and the adoption of telecommunications technology is a leading priority for both countries. The argument made by officials in Washington about Chinese firms installing nefarious ‘backdoors’ into their tech in order to control or spy on host countries – has become a fairly moot point in the post-Snowden world, as US high-tech firms continue to collude with surveillance moguls like the NSA and CIA. Is it any surprise that countries are rejecting American tech?