An ominous sign? All NewsNippon (ANN) reports that just 4 days before the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou “a large Chinese technology company” issued a company policy stating any employee caught using an iPhone would be fined the entire purchase price and that any employee using a Chinese smartphone would be reimbursed for 15% of the purchase price. The video reports some evidence out of Hong Kong and various Chinese SNS sites that users are supporting Huawei in the ‘trade war’ and dumping iPhone.
Like all news out of China it’s impossible to know how much of it is real as other news sources report that the Huawei arrest isn’t being reported in official Chinese news channels. Take it with a grain of salt but either way it’s not a good development.