So, you are wise and I'm stupid and naive. Wonderful. I think I can stop talking to you now.I remember you said BYD was a tier above everyone else? I can agree with that. But when it comes to the risk of getting banned, you seem to imply BYD would just be "as successful as" other Chinese EV players? Otherwise I don't understand how you're so sure that BYD would not get picked out alone. I guess we can agree to disagree.
I mentioned the banning risk of BYD (instead of NIO or Xpeng or whatever) precisely because BYD is on a trend to stand out just like Huawei did. BYD still doesn't have the level of international presence Huawei had, but it could get there in a few years, and the risk of "becoming a Huawei level security risk" could rise accordingly. Like I said earlier, the US didn't attack Huawei because it was caught spying, but because it was too successful. AND they did it to contain China, not just to protect their domestic market (that's why they didn't just use tariff or market ban). Huawei had surpassed Apple in European marketshare and was going to enter via mainstream US carrier if not for political intervention. How do you think they achieved that with "terrible reputation in Western countries"? The answer is they didn't have a terrible reputation, they were well received and sought after by many in Western countries (just like BYD of today), that's until the US used State Power to engage Huawei in a world-wide smearing campaign, as well as cutting them off from fabs and GMS. Feel free to do your fact check, I didn't make this up because I'm "obsessed" or "passionate about Huawei".
I think a wise person should be able to learn from history, not just seeing how things are going today. Especially when this "history" just happened a couple years ago under our own eyes.