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No more Chinese phones for me either way. It's enough that Google knows everything about me, PLA doesn't have to.

What phones do not have Chinese components?

Not only that, which base stations don't have Chinese components?

But cpu, baseband, ram etc is certainly more serious consideration... And I don't see how you can get around that. Unless you plan to build a dumb phone around a Motorola 68k or something?

Ericsson for one.

Ericsson do most of their QA work in China at least.

Without components from China? Today?

And how could you use esp chips as "backdoors"? Maybe espressif made them because they thought there is a good market for low-cost SoC with good network stack?

I hope that is the case; the pessimist in me says the price/performance is too good to be true.

I hope esp8266 & so are not relevant enough to have a sofisticated backdoor built in.

It seems likely that the esp8266 chip family is being used in industrial automation. It's a very powerful yet cheap chip, making it practically ideal for adding covert spyware. I love it, yet it scares me. It's a little too amazing.