Some Chinese Companies Are Giving Employees Incentives For Buying Huawei Devices or Just Giving Them One and Boycotting Apple (nikkei.com)

A growing number of Chinese companies are throwing their support behind Huawei Technologies following the recent arrest of its chief financial officer in Canada, taking such steps as offering subsidies for staff who buy the telecom equipment maker's smartphones. From a report: Many Chinese businesses have told employees they will receive subsidies if they buy Huawei smartphones to aid the company. Most are subsidizing 10% to 20% of the purchase price, with some even covering the full amount. Over 20 Chinese companies also took to social media to announce that they will increase purchases of other Huawei products, such as its business management system.

The show of support has been broad, from information technology providers to food companies. A regional government official said that several hundred businesses were conducting such programs nationwide. Electronics maker Shanghai Youluoke Electronic and Technology is fully subsidizing up to two Huawei smartphones per employee, while display equipment maker Shenzhen Yidaheng Technology will cover 18% of the price for Huawei or ZTE units. Fuchun Technology, a communications service company listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange announced on social media on Dec. 11 that it would give each of its 200 employees who buy Huawei's smartphone before the end of 2018 between 100 and 500 yuan ($14.5 to $72.5).

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The Arrest an Attack up all Chinese

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The problem with the arrest and subsequent political press releases is pretty much does make it a threat to all Chinese people and all Chinese companies. There was a surged in racism against Chinese in US comments and those would have been picked up on as well. They tend to be conformist and authoritarian and the mob reaction to this event was bound to spread. How much and how severely entirely up to the Chinese government but some will occur. It was really a bad idea by the US establishment and will have long term ramifications against US and Canadian citizens and companies in China, it will have the odour of trying to force colonial rule back on China and the Chinese living in China, it will not go down well and will last quite a long time. Just low grade idiots our of their depth playing stupid games, that other people will end up paying the price for. Yeah, it is going to fester for quite some number of years, from US or Canada probably smart to go elsewhere rather than China, your very unlikely to receive warnings for petty crimes and likely to receive the harshest penalties, not by orders from the top, just spread sentiment to each little point of authority all the way down the system.