Amid news that thousands of banned Chinese-made surveillance devices are in use across American government installations, Sen. Marco Rubio is asking the Pentagon what Chinese gear it is using.
His remarks underscore America's frayed relations with China, as the Trump administration wages a trade war with Beijing, imposes sanctions on Chinese tech giant Huawei and approves a weapons sale to Taiwan.
The Navy's top civilian recently warned that the service needs to keep the telecom behemoth out of U.S. military projects due to fears the company could allow Beijing to steal U.S. national security secrets.