The incoming Trump administration could take action next year.

TP-link is reportedly being investigated over national security concerns linked to vulnerabilities in its very popular routers.

  • remer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5916·
    12 days ago

    The US government is just upset because it’s harder to place back doors in non-US hardware. It’s a US national security concern to NOT have US back doors in devices.

    • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
      234·
      12 days ago

      That’s not all. The US government exists to look out for the interests of wealthy americans.

      Every dollar spent on a different nation is a dollar that could’ve been spent on them, in their eyes.

      American business owners know that China is competitive because they can provide better products at cheaper prices. Americans would need to invest in making their products better or lower prices to compete with China. Both result in lower profits for owners.

      This is why we will never stop seeing FUD against products that offer us a better deal than those looking to exploit us further. It’s more profitable to convince useful idiots to “buy american” than it is to actually sell them products worth buying at competitive prices.

      • atthecoast@feddit.nlEnglish
        52·
        12 days ago

        This comment is suspicious to me. It’s been companies like Apple that have pioneered using Chinese labor to increase their profits. Moving jobs to the USA won’t help make them any richer. It makes economic sense but not strategic sense

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          12 days ago

          I don’t think it makes economic sense. Bringing production back here creates jobs, but we have low unemployment so we don’t really need more manufacturing jobs here.

          It makes sense for national security though.

      • bobalot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        12 days ago

        Countries like China, Germany, Taiwan, etc. have competitive exports because they have direct and indirect subsidies to their manufacturing sectors at the expense of their household sector.

        Some of these subsidies include a weak currency relative to their economy, weakened labour laws, preferential interest rates, capital controls, labour movement restrictions, etc.

        China uses all of these. Germany primarily used the Hartz “reforms” which basically decoupled wage growth from productivity and GDP growth.

        The reduces the household share of national income and they cannot afford to consume the production of their manufacturing sector and therefore the excess production must be exported.