The Government May Ban TP-Link Routers This Year. How Worried Should You Be?
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The company is reportedly under investigation for ties to Chinese cyberattacks.

The US is trying to do to TP-Link what they did to Huawei. Even though, as the article mentions, TP-Link devices have a US-based supply chain and are manufactured in Vietnam. This is literally just the US not allowing China to own any value-added consuming facing products in the US.