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.
Please don’t tell me Xiaomi has this issue because I’ve got a mesh system from them
Oh it does. Diagnosis: Terminally Chinese, not under control of western intelligence for planting backdoors.