US imposed tariffs, China introduced malicious chips.

This was just another instance which proved the monopolistic ways of US. US has a well established practice of altering its hardware systems exported to the rest of the world, but always went uncovered by the media unlike this time when its combatant retaliated by resorting to the same measures and installed malicious chips in the systems sent to the US. The intentions were same but the magnitude was well subdued. Nevertheless this act gave the western media cherry blossom content to deliberate upon.

Let alone the two superpowers in question and their ruthless deeds, rather these events signal the paucity of integrity and self esteem at the global stage. How low can a country fall, that it is exporting infiltrated products and willfully accepting the fact.

Data suggests that the chip installed in the systems have trespassed vital data centers of government organisations, and companies like Amazon and Apple. Though used for a maleficent cause, but it is a technological and engineering wonder that a rice grain size chip has the potential to retrieve data worth $12 billion.