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Following Canada’s arrest of Huawei’s Global CFO on December 1st, several companies in China have announced new policies to encourage (and even require) the use of Huawei products instead of America’s Apple iPhone.

According to the Yahoo article – several companies in China now offer subsidies for employees exchanging iPhone handsets for Huawei and even placing a penalty on employees who purchase an iPhone for themselves. Several other companies take the boycott even further and are discouraging their employees from buying American made products such as cars.

The backlash against Apple may be due to Huawei’s position as the number 2 smartphone manufacturer in the world behind Samsung. Unfortunately for Apple, this recent backlash will only hurt their already low sales numbers in China (Huawei holds the largest share of the Chinese market for smartphones).