Thoughts on Chinese spying and influence?

>the debate about the Chinese telecoms company Huawei... was less about using [telecoms equipment] to spy - and more the fact that a relationship of dependency on another country for technology on which daily life depends opens the way to influence and even coercion. If you do something or say something Beijing does not like, could it cut you off?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr4xpyrkdqo