Seems like this is some crazy brinksmanship because doesn't the US essentially have the power to kill Huawei if it cuts it off from the most advanced chips? The stuff from like a year or two back, when tariffs started coming out, about Huawei developing its own internal substitutions and stuff never seemed to pan out 100%. Yet losing the China market doesn't kill those US companies, just significantly reduces their profits. Total destruction seems to equal not significant profit reduction. The CCP/Xi seems to be rolling the dice again and again and again that the US won't take the most drastic action, essentially ever.