It's hard to get sources to answer your question properly as all information surrounding this has been flooded by propaganda designed to make this appear to be all about US and Chinese rivalry.
It's not, all kinds of security flaws have been found in the app this year to include a built in ftp service that would allow anyone with access to clandestinely upload/download anything to the device. As far as cybersecurity goes, that's about as malicious as it gets.
It's hard to get sources to answer your question properly as all information surrounding this has been flooded by propaganda designed to make this appear to be all about US and Chinese rivalry.
It's not, all kinds of security flaws have been found in the app this year to include a built in ftp service that would allow anyone with access to clandestinely upload/download anything to the device. As far as cybersecurity goes, that's about as malicious as it gets.
yet the gatekeepers (google and apple) allowed it into their app store / play store worldwide?
so many more questions would follow