Chinese telecom companies are starting to remove American devices from their networks and turn them off completely, in a move to protect national security and confront potential risks.

Back in 2022 when Russia terms with USA soured due to escalating Ukrainian war, Cisco turned on the kill switch and disabled all its telco equipments in Russia before making the exit.

Cisco's Russian subsidiary physically destroyed unsold equipment worth 1.9 billion rubles ($23.5 million).

So the question here is China the only threat with backdoors and kill switches in their telecom equipments?

Western companies are saints?