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That's not really a fair assessment of the situation. The real (and valid) concern is that DJI's commercial products dominate the market for land/resource development, agriculture, infrastructure, chemical refining and pipelines, and other segments, and the software platform is capable of exfiltrating data (flight telemetry, imaging, etc.) back to a firm with strong ties to Chinese government and state enterprises.


Amazingly that wasn't an issue for over a decade, before the trade and proxy wars started...


The trade jingoism is only part of it. A decade ago, drone tech, including DJI's was far less mature, and not nearly as widely adopted as it is today.




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