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China's Top Phone Makers Huawei and Xiaomi In Talks With Carriers To Expand To US Market (bloomberg.com)
From a report: Huawei and Xiaomi are in talks with U.S. wireless operators about selling flagship smartphones to American consumers as soon as next year, according to people familiar with the matter. The handset makers are negotiating with carriers including AT&T and Verizon, said the people, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. Talks are still fluid and it's possible no agreements will materialize, they said.
More cheap crap from inherently dishonest people, who will load up the phones with malware to spy on us and report back to Beijing. The US should ban the import of these phones.
At very affordable prices.
There is still no proof about whether Kaspersky is actually leaking anything to the Russian government. Of course the US federal government doesn't want to use their products, which makes total sense because it is too much of a risk, but nothing, to my knowledge, has been proven.
Same for Chinese. You may consider the risk of using a Chinese phone, but so far neither Huawei nor Xiaomi have been caught selling data to their government. Even when some data was leaked to servers in China, it was never clear there was a political intent (opposed to just plain incompetence from the Chinese developers).
This kind of leaks go hardly unnoticed. You can't easily plant them without getting caught and if you do, the risks would be big. The most successful so far have been Google and Amazon, since no one could know if the US agencies had access to all the requests done through Alexa/Google assistant.