Chinese Owned Tech Brands

[barry1010]

Is it likely that tech made by Chinese companies will be banned in the UK within the next few years? I've been hearing rumours about it happening for a while and I will soon be investing in new tech

[237SJ]

No. Everything's made in PRC, even if it isn't a Chinese brand.

[barry1010]

It is only the Chinese owned companies that are facing sanctions in the US and some European countries, companies like Huawei for security and privacy reasons.

[douglas9401]

Chinese whispers?

[Buenchico]

The only bans that are already in place (in the USA) or might possibly come into place (anywhere outside China) is on telecommunications equipment that might, in theory at least, possibly pose a threat to the national security of the countries imposing such bans.

So, for example, the USA has banned the importation of mobile phones from Huawei and also acted to block the use of Google apps on Huawei phones worldwide. (However one doesn't actually need to be a technical genius to work out how to install Google Play Store onto an Huawei phone).

The UK government has acted to remove Chinese-made CCTV cameras from sensitive locations and some retailers, such as Tesco, have voluntarily ceased selling CCTV surveillance cameras made by Hikvision and Dahua because of their involvement in alleged human rights abuses in the suppression of the Uyghur Muslim minority by China.

However there's no risk to national security through buying a hi-fi system made in China, so (unless, say, it could be shown that such systems were made by using forced Uyghur labour) there's no chance of any ban upon them.

Similarly, my Chinese-made transceiver (at around a third of the price of a similar Japanese model) isn't a threat to privacy or security because, by its very nature, everything that I say when using it is in the public domain anyway.

[barry1010]

I'm looking for an Android tablet and I quite fancy the OnePlus Pad. I've had no problems with my 7 year old OnePlus 3t phone and do like the shape and specs of the Pad

[Buenchico]

OnePlus is, like it's sister company, Oppo, an Android certified partner.
https://www.android.com/intl/en_in/certified/partners/
So, unlike Huawei devices (where it's necessary to sideload Google Play Store), you should have full access to Google apps on the OnePlus Pad. I can't really see ant problems with it.

[barry1010]

Thanks, Buen, I'm ready to pre-order now.