It’s not just ZTE and Huawei. Ebay and Amazon Marketplace are flooded with Chinese merchants who sell electronics for pennies. FYI, you can get ipod cables for 15-20 cents shipped on eBay from China. Guess who subsidizes the shipping costs for the sellers?
You’re a bad buy if you depend on communist state support to control prices in other countries, driving domestic companies to the brink of bankruptcy (Nokia, Blackberry).