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It’s a cat and mouse game, where escalation can hurt. For example, China might take issue with the systematic compromise of undersea cables.

There’s a certain Casablanca-esque “what? There’s gambling happening here?” element here too — Huawei was shipping fake Cisco gear 20 years ago.

> When will this stuff finally have consequences for China?

Hahaha funny thing to say after disclosers from NSA/CIA/FBI/GCQH/BND...

>When will this stuff finally have consequences for China?

Never, unless hardware manufacturing will take off somewhere else.

Somewhere poor, where labor is cheap and people are still susceptible to bribes?

Rather not, China's economic rise started in Jiang's era was both due to it being cheap, AND due to Jiang's era officials being more competent and business friendly than those of an average bantustan (really sorry having to use the term)

It already has. Look at the tariffs against them.

Ha. This looks more like good old capitalism rather than any state sponsored spying.

"Nobody's making you buy from China"

Do you really think that another world power would behave differently if they were the factory of the world?