US weighs ban on Chinese-made router in millions of American homes
Live MintU.S. authorities are investigating whether a Chinese company whose popular home-internet routers have been linked to cyberattacks poses a national-security risk and are considering banning the devices. Investigators at the Commerce, Defense and Justice departments have opened their own probes into the company, and authorities could ban the sale of TP-Link routers in the U.S. next year, according to people familiar with the matter. Asked to comment about potential actions against TP-Link, Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said the U.S. was using the guise of national security to “suppress Chinese companies." TP-Link routers don’t appear to be related to China’s alleged breaches of at least eight U.S. telecom firms by a group dubbed Salt Typhoon, some of the people said, but the administration’s probes into the company appear to have picked up momentum in light of those recently discovered intrusions. The Chinese-government-controlled telecom firm is already minimally used in the U.S. Taiwan, which has broad restrictions on the use of technology from China, has banned TP-Link routers from government and educational facilities.
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