[philwelch]

The NSA works with the advantages they have, and likewise for China. For example, PRISM involves tapping communications within American service providers like Google and Facebook, which is an advantage to the NSA because these are American companies that are subject to US law, FISA warrants, etc, and yet foreign adversaries still use these services. China's advantage is manufacturing--the manufacturing is in China, within the control of the Chinese government, and yet the manufactured hardware is still exported to China's foreign adversaries--and the way to exploit that is to do something exactly like what Bloomberg is reporting.