> The way the last administration rolled this out was certainly with a political narrative, but my guess is it originated with people that weren't thinking at a

> The way the last administration rolled this out was certainly with a political narrative, but my guess is it originated with people that weren't thinking at all about politics. During the last administration there were multiple reports of Huawei hardware containing backdoors, which were originally criticized by the mass media; a Bloomberg piece comes to mind. I don’t think that the political nature of the initiative has changed at all. It has always been about national security.