I don't see how the trade war fixes the possible security issue caused by a potential OTA update in a potential conflict, a solution would be to make illegal OTA updates for critical hardware and software without getting the update reviewed. So military or other important things would buy only products that are reviewed and with updates that are signed by the government.
Or even simpler have this hardware and software setup to only get OTA updates and commands only from central command.
This feels so hypocritical considering that many PC around the world run CPUs that have Intel ME or equivalent and there is no media coverage of known backdoors in CPUs(I know technically it is a fully featured remote management feature that had some bugs in the past but Intel assures us that there are no more critical bugs and for sure no intentional bugs and this enterprise feature is also included in all CPUs not only in enterprise ones)
Or even simpler have this hardware and software setup to only get OTA updates and commands only from central command.
This feels so hypocritical considering that many PC around the world run CPUs that have Intel ME or equivalent and there is no media coverage of known backdoors in CPUs(I know technically it is a fully featured remote management feature that had some bugs in the past but Intel assures us that there are no more critical bugs and for sure no intentional bugs and this enterprise feature is also included in all CPUs not only in enterprise ones)