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【Text/Liu Chenghui of Observer Network】

The "paranoia" of some American politicians is getting worse. Reuters reported on August 15 that two U.S. congressmen wrote to the Biden administration this week, requesting an investigation into Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer TP-Link and its affiliates to find out whether the wireless routers they produce pose so-called "potential national security risks." They claimed that these devices could be used for "cyber attacks" against the United States.

According to data from IDC, a world-renowned technology market research organization, TP-Link Technologies, which focuses on the consumer market, is the world's largest wireless router manufacturer. On the 13th, John Moolenaar, the chairman of the notorious US House of Representatives "Ad Hoc Committee on China" and a Republican congressman, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the chief Democratic congressman of the organization, wrote to US Secretary of Commerce Raimondo, requesting an investigation into TP-Link Technologies' products.

"We ask the Department of Commerce to examine the threats posed by (small office or home office) routers with ties to China, especially those produced by TP-Link Technologies, the world's largest manufacturer," the two people wrote in a joint letter obtained by Reuters.

The two also called it a "glaring national security issue."

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Reuters said the U.S. Department of Commerce will respond to the joint letter from lawmakers through appropriate channels. TP-Link did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Chinese Embassy in the United States stressed that it hopes the U.S. authorities "will have sufficient evidence when confirming cyber-related incidents, rather than making unfounded speculations and accusations."

The report said that the joint letter showed that the United States was increasingly concerned that China "may use routers and other equipment to launch cyber attacks on the United States."

Last year, the United States hyped up a cyberattack launched by a hacker group "related to the Chinese government." However, the U.S. Department of Justice found in an investigation in January this year that the vast majority of the routers involved seemed to be products of Cisco and Netgear.

In recent years, from connected cars to electric car batteries, to cranes and even garlic... some American politicians have almost gone to an unreasonable level to hype up the "China threat."

Regarding the unwarranted exaggeration of the "China threat" by American politicians, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin once said that the "paranoia" of relevant American politicians is getting worse and worse. The "China threat" bubble advocated by relevant American politicians is getting bigger and bigger, and at the same time, their true intention to contain China's development under the guise of national security is becoming more and more exposed. For these American politicians, whatever is advanced in China is a "threat", and all measures must be taken to suppress it; only shirts and socks exported by China do not pose a threat to the United States. What American politicians have done is completely naked bullying and hegemony. Such despicable behavior deserves condemnation and opposition from the international community.

In May this year, the website of the American media The New York Times published a commentary on Sino-US relations by Rory Truex, an associate professor at Princeton University.

Truax wrote that now the US political circles and government departments are afraid of the word "China", and the US national institutions are collectively suffering from chronic "China anxiety". Now almost anything with the word "China" will trigger a fear reaction in the US political system. This behavior of creating panic about China is not only tantamount to the United States formulating a healthy and correct China policy, but also further leads to racial discrimination against Chinese Americans, giving birth to the new era of "Yellow Peril Theory".

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