I do not follow these things closely, but your description is consistent with Apple’s behavior in recent years. It saddens me, because Qualcomm is an aggressive player, but not an unfair one. They are also Taiwan (R.O.C.) not CCP, and that should count for something.
Bad patent behavior by large companies goes back to Philo Farnsworth and earlier.
“Philo Farnsworth”
One of my favorite obscure inventors. I don’t know if it’s true but I read that he was a teenager driving the family farm tractor when he figured out how to create television. His education that paved the way came from a stack of magazines, possibly Popular Science.
Apple is indeed one the worst of the Efficient Infringers. Their corporate culture appears to have come from the Mafia