But Ren is slick. He said he wouldn't but he did. He said making everything by yourself is peasant mentality, so Trump's analysts thought they'd catch an old fool flat-footed only to find that he'd been having secret meetings the whole the time about his spare tire projects! Unless Ren meant it at the time and then changed his mind right after, this would be a very Sun Tzu moment. After the US was purposefully misled to believe that a tech ban would fry Huawei, it implemented the tactic only to find that it is not only ineffective but has fallen into the trap of creating simultaneously distrust in China of foreign parts and a gaping need in China's domestic market, finally galvanizing China's tech powers to invest in core technologies. Nothing that Beijing could do would move these lazy greedy gluts so Ren tricked the US to do Beijing's dirty work. Well, that's one hell of a story and I don't know how smart Ren is, but if he planned all this using Huawei as bait, then he would easily be the Zhu Geliang of this century.