*One could wish for a lot more frankness in this ongoing cyberwar. For instance: who actually decided to pounce on the Huawei Princess? What was the imaginary game-plan there? And what apparatchik decided to counter-snatch two harmless Canadians as cyberwar pawns? Those two guys ought to have their pictures on every 5G unit ever sold, like missing children on milk cartons.
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