abstract:"Guns for Hire" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, from their album Flick of the Switch, released in 1983. Written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Brian Johnson, it was also released as a single with "Landslide" as the B-side.
Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and his deputy, Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), are gunsforhire in the Old West longtime partners who communicate mainly with glances, nods, a few gnomic words, and a deepening stillness that suddenly explodes into violence.
Presumably, Huawei's American guns-for-hire or perhaps Obama's own advisors impressed upon them that President Obama could hardly afford to ignore CFIUS' conclusions in order to do the PRC's bidding.