There’s a long history of telecom equipment being backdoored by the manufacturer or their national gov. You may recall everyone losing their shit on HN about the AT&T room in NYC where the fiber trunks were mirrored to a secret NSA room.
Regardless of the whataboutism argument in Internet forums, it’s not in the national interest to give a hostile foreign power the ability to do something like that.
I agree. We should also force western companies to produce their products in the west too if they are needed for national security. A controller or motherboard in a switch or router being manufactured in China can have any number of bugs put in, up to and including making "fake" silicon that is backdoored.
Regardless of the whataboutism argument in Internet forums, it’s not in the national interest to give a hostile foreign power the ability to do something like that.