content: In short, It's owned by Chinese government.  The aim is too have access to all the traffic on the Internet by underselling Cisco (a $220B company.)  That way China could steal all the worlds military and business technology secrets. If there's no specific law corrupt  people or perhaps morons will share technology or use compromised technology ultimately potentially causing ones fiery demise in a mass event. China's strategy is to gather info through the summation of numerous discrete bits of intel.  i.e.  https://fcw.com/articles/2018/10/04/china-supply-chain-hack.aspx?m=1