The US banning higher end devices also possibly means they are harder for the US to surveil. This may make them more valuable to people that are not Chinese and wont ever spend time in China.
Wow, you'll have to provide some evidence of that in the past. I mean, sure, the US likes to surveil as much as the next state, but the US generally favors security over surveillance. Such a position would be wildly inconsistent. I just don't see that happening. Ever.
Keep in mind, a fair amount of overlap between US military and the US intelligence community. These are the people that build things like Cheyenne Mountain and Raven Rock and ARPAnet and fund lots and lots of computer security research. They are paranoid patriots. Some might be patriotic paranoids, but the general trend is "both". They don't want leaky machines inside their borders.
