alt Hacker NewsDespite the amount of sucking up to Trump in the press release, this is not totally stupid. DJI drones do have a data path back to China. Several years ago, the US military, which used to use some DJI drones, decided that the risk was too high. There was an order (in 2022?) to cease using DJI drones and to store them with the batteries removed.
On the other hand, Donald Trump Jr. recently acquired an interest in a US drone company, which is selling drone motors to the US military for what seems a high price.
Every piece of USA tech has a data path back to USA -- who are actively threatening a bunch of countries right now.
The obvious corollary is that Canada, Greenland & Denmark (Panama, Venezuela, etc. too) and all their allies should get rid of all Windows computers, all Apple phones, all Tesla, etc, etc.
It's hard to imagine USA are not planning attacks right now using these tech vectors, given this threat model is being defended against in this way.
It was as equally clever as it was evil to put pressure on us to ditch Chinese tech, so USA can now attack us.