Yes, sneaky bastards will do anything to achieve their goals. We, on the other hand, are moral and ethical, and would never stoop to anything like this. We just tell other governments not to use Huawei or else, and that worked too.
We became too moral and too ethical. We should do exactly the same as the offender. I prefer this principle: "An eye for an eye" or the law of retaliation is the principle that a person who has injured another person is to be penalized to a similar degree by the injured party.