carriers who must sell the same phone as an electronics retailer cannot stop you from unlocking the bootloader.

first world countries have carrier locking illegal, and carriers sell the same configuration phones as regular shops.

source: my crackpipe

Isn’t the whole point that china wants to implement it themselves so they would know if it’s secure (i.e. has no western backdoors and has chinese backdoors)?

Doesn’t seem there is anything that they can do lol

sorry for your loss