The Chinese are already boycotting the phone that's why Apple had to lower its revenue forecast.

Now the interesting part is the phone's supply chain is largely Chinese and moving that to another country is close to impossible.

EU have been reluctant in agreeing with Trump on Huawei. Actually there are no changes in taxes btn China and EU, but Trump has tariffs on EU stuff entering the US market

Shutting down Apple Manufacturing facilities will not happen because it will be the beginning of the end of China communist party. The ripple effect will lead to collapse of the GOV and the ruling elites know that.

1. There will be immediate mass unemployment associated with Apple factories closure

2. It will signal other foreign manufactures that its time to open shops in other East Asia countries leading to a ripple and graduate shift of production by other companies to other countries creating a compounding long term increase unemployment.

3. China need technology and they are learning by having apple and other companies in their country.

With high unemployment the economy will slow down and the party will loose support from the masses

That will be a long shot. Manufacturing is not just building factories, you will have to train those workers to be as efficient as those of the country you are leaving so I do not see any company making that kind of move.

These companies also want to sell to the 1B chinese population so leaving also implies leaving behind that market that they will find no where else.

That's why Walmart has alerted their customers to expect higher prices

Currently, Trump hasnt slapped tariffs on Apple products but if he imposes it on the rest of the items then the prices of Apple phones is bound to go up

The 1b market you are talking about is only made up of peasants. That's not the target market for Americans or EU. They will move elsewhere very fast. They will gamble and create efficiency elsewhere. I once saw on tv how Boeing constructed a factory from scratch and started making planes. If Africa had the right infrastructure like power and ports .. they could move here too we also have a 1b population(market)

One thing you don't understand is that majority/all manufacturing done in China by foreign companies are basically assembly lines, not high-tech manufacturing. These manufacturing are not done by trained engineers, they are done by cheap, not educated, Chinese population. You are basically trained to clue things together. It takes a week or so to train these kinds of labor. Apple for instant does all the design work in California and ship parts and Chips from other US based high tech manufactures to China for assembly.

I agree that over time, Chinese will acquire the necessary technology however, I don't agree that china will reach there through reverse engineering and I don't agree that they have the capacity to manufacture practically everything.

To acquire the technology they have to partner rather than reverse engineer. Take for instance the iphone, you have technologies and parts/chips from multiple highly specialized high tech companies it will be cost ineffective to reverse engineer iphone because you will have to reverse engineer products and parts from different companies that are the best in their space.

US still have a big edge in terms of technology evolution, their universities and government have been research hub for over 70 yrs. Their universities attract the best and the brightest talents from all over the world and the success of capitalism ensures that the smartest talents are handsomely rewarded therefore keeping them from moving part to their countries. China will have to be able to attract top talents and reward them handsomely in order to succeed in order to compete in high tech.

There is also something we seem to be forgetting. The runaway pollution problem in China. Even if it was for the sake of industrialisation I know most of us wouldn't trade the clean air and the clean soils and water that we have.that's what the west chose and drove the filth to China. it's only that in China the media is gagged and there is no democracy. Otherwise if they could open the doors to their health facilities you would pray that we remain poor but heathy for ever.
I hope they could share their statistics on cancer and other pollution related ailments to the outside world.

There should be a global law or standard that should prevent companies with global presence from being under control of a nation to protect the customer. Huawei should sue Google if they pull the plug on Android from their customers.

But I'm sure Google will pay Huawei billions for contract infringement.

But I do not understand these spying claims. If the US or China were to spy on Kenya, who would be the most effective?
Huawei has the hardware while US has the software including almost all our emails, call logs via Android and Apple OS, FB, Twitter, Cisco...