Re: Is this the same....
No, it is not the one non-US vendor issue.
The non-US vendor issue is different. Once upon a time there was just one US network vendor which had the special line cards to be put into the routers in that supposedly non-existent room in the facility of a large US Telco in San Francisco which copied all traffic and sent it to No Such Agency. At line rate. The other US and Eu vendors did not have the feature set which supposedly did not even exist. This was in the days of Shrub Junior and was later put in law with a backdate and the telco in question given immunity from prosecution.
So someone in US govt asked non-US vendor for the same feature set without going into details what it is it for. Bog standard RFI/RFQ. Non-US vendor answered with a quote and delivery date. That freaked out USA govt off the scale. They reacted the way a Taleban elder reacts when he finds that his supposedly virgin wife is actually the village bicycle. Yes, China, Russia, etc have all been there before us and have requested said featureset long ago before us. That is reality, USA govt needs to deal with it and accept it.
All names removed to protect the guilty. You can guess Huy is Huy here.
The issue here is different - DGI relays data to China. So do all Chinese consumer toys - video cameras, IoT, etc. The DOD is right - they do not belong in an army unit.
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