Hackers have chipped away at U.S. economic advantage through a steady campaign of stealing American intellectual property, according to a top NSA official.

The DNC has warned candidates running in the 2018 midterm elections not to use devices made by Chinese telecom firms.

The dilemma presents the latest — and perhaps fiercest — technological showdown between Washington and Beijing to date.

The report from ODNI's counterintelligence agency also raises concerns about the software supply chain as an attack vector.

“Ripping out and replacing” a raft of Chinese-made telecom gear won’t be easy, a group of American companies protested to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). A collective of trade groups representing smaller American service providers joined with prominent Chinese telecom Huawei in slamming the FCC’s proposal to ban American telecoms from using federal subsidies to purchase Chinese-made equipment.

A bipartisan trio of senators have asked the Commerce Department to clarify that U.S. companies are welcome to remove products from their networks made by ZTE.