I interpret this as: We are sovereign entities and we need to be able to use technology without having to worry about any backdoors and other threats to our nat

I interpret this as: We are sovereign entities and we need to be able to use technology without having to worry about any backdoors and other threats to our national security. As such we're going to build our own tech, and we might even slip some of our own 'medecine' in there too ... My .2$