It's really fun living on the west coast USA because I get to wake up to news like this. https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban
Ah yes, let's just ban all consumer-grade routers from the US market because none of them are built in the US at all. This will definitely go well and won't lead to the FCC getting sued over this arbitrary decision with little-to-no basis on why specifically moving manufacturing to the USA will make them "more secure".
Also like... why are commercial and enterprise equipment not covered? Why not enforce these companies to support consumer-grade products for X years, or to issue security fixes for slightly out of date hardware that was discontinued a couple years prior?
Why ask every company to either get an exemption they aren't likely to get, or figure out spinning up US manufacturing plants - a months-to-years long investment, in a more expensive country to manufacture, farther away from their parts suppliers - just to appease a single government?
Like... if the secret intent ("secret", let's be honest here this is likely the motive) is to get more manufacturing jobs here, IDK it feels like there are better ways to go about that instead of trying to force large tech companies to relocate even just "country of final assembly" plants far away from their sources, require millions of investment to spin up new plants, all for a single government, knowing they will have to increase prices because that kind of move will be more expensive?