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Does any western government activity promote monopolies abroad and threaten consequences if such monopolies are fought against, all while accepting state-backed monopoly at home?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-threatens-retaliation-aga...

To recap, the Alibaba break up wasn't about a monopoly, it was about a rival power base to the CCP that couldn't be allowed to exist.

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Well, how about Boeing vs Airbus?

How is it even possible to establish a monopoly market with airplanes considering you can operate both at the same time?

https://www.quora.com/Can-an-airline-have-both-Boeing-and-Ai...

The same way Huawei sells 5G equipment as Ericsson, Nokia, et al.

Once you build a 5G system with Huawei, it's very hard and sometimes impossible to include other equipment. Huawei for this reason builds a "full-stack" 5G product that doesn't allow for anyone else's hardware but theirs.

And again, Ericsson and Nokia don't have nation states threatening countries if they don't use them in all their networks.

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