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I don't trust Chinese manufacturers for PCs or smartphones.

These days is pretty much impossible to escape chinese manufacturers, even if you think you did, you didn't, pretty much every part of your cellphone will have been made there, even if your phone was assembled somewhere else.

Pretty much your only options are: https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone_pro/ (Made In Taiwan mostly with Korean parts, Camera from Japan) or https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/ (Fully American, but at a delusionally sounding uS$1999 price tag)

"People think they have a choice, they don't have a choice" Bill Gates

There is a big difference between being assembled in China with foreign chips/critical hardware and being made in China with Chinese chips and owned by a Chinese company.  

Apple phones, for example, are made in China in a plant owned by a Taiwanese company with parts from companies outside of China.

Will you trust China as you log in to your bank account and other critical accounts with a Chinese phone, tablet, or PC? gl with that.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/android-tv-bo...at-malware

The military isn't taking chances. In 2008, Marines stationed in Iraq stopped using Lenovo tech after discovering data was being transmitted back to China. The U.S. Air Force replaced $378 million worth of servers purchased by Lenovo.

Have a Lenovo machine at home or work? I suggest you replace it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/colu...250875002/

There is a good reason why these Chinese firms are banned from doing business with the U.S. government, and most S&P 500 companies have similar policies.