The US Warned About Using Chinese Products
Trump’s administration has long been pressing US agencies to stand against China in all ways possible. The US government has added many Chinese firms like Huawei, DJI, SMIC, etc into the Entity List, and imposed harsh sanctions on transactions. All these actions were made claiming that China poses a threat both technologically and economically to the US. Christopher Wray, the FBI director has said that almost half of nearly 5,000 counter-intelligence cases they deal with are from China. Also Read- US Government Added 60 New Chinese Firms to the Entity List The advisory released today explains the relationship between the Chinese government and the Chinese companies as coercive, where the security laws were designed to let PRC alter the products of Chinese firms, and set backdoors, bugs, and other covert data collection mechanisms from users. Also, local companies may be demanded by the Chinese government to surrender any data they collect to detour the rival nations, and at the same time, to excel in the Chinese economy. DHS called that for long, many US companies are exposing sensitive data with regularly surfacing vulnerabilities, which is stolen by the Chinese government eventually. Calling the coercive practices of the Chinese government on its local companies as “PRC [People’s Republic of China] government-sponsored data theft“, it warned the US companies to consider transacting with Chinese players as a serious threat.
