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When States Buy Chinese, America Is Put at Risk

China is everywhere—operations targeting American politicians and theft of commercial information from American companies are just two deeply established (and frankly, successful) lines of effort. While American leaders are thankfully working to close these security gaps, they are still paying inadequate attention to a major vulnerability at the state level: U.S. state governments have purchased millions of dollars' worth of technology manufactured by companies beholden to Beijing.