Nong Jiagui, a teacher in rural Yunnan province, said educators faced similar requests. “Schools are told to use Chinese phones as well, to support Chinese companies,” he said.
For some ordinary consumers, patriotism has spurred a switch. Liu, who asked that his first name be withheld, swapped his iPhone for Huawei’s new Mate 60 in October. “I’ve been waiting for a long time for a phone with a real domestically produced chip so I put down my iPhone and am supporting Huawei!” he gushed.
Data from research group Counterpoint shows that in the first six weeks of this year, Apple smartphone sales fell 24 per cent from a year earlier. Huawei sales, by contrast, were up 64 per cent…Read More