WSJ Report further notes that Huawei’s slow but constant progress in the chipset field is ‘both a security concern for the U.S. and a commercial challenge for Apple’.

Same thing, Apple is so big their success is part of US national security.

If the tech companies fall, the US is fucked.

Source: the Pentagon

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/11/the-us-drops-an-average-of-46-bombs-a-day-why-should-the-world-see-us-as-a-force-for-peace/

Why wouldn’t it? Lots of languages do. In C++ you have __LINE__.