07/21/2026
Researchers at Purdue, Florida
International University, and the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point analyzed
apps built for American service members.
More than one in eight contained code from
Chinese and Russian companies.
One app — used by troops to rate the living
conditions on their own bases — contains
code from Huawei, the Chinese telecom that
U.S. regulators formally designated a
national security threat in 2020.
There's no evidence the code was planted,
and none that it's been exploited. The
likelier explanation is more damning:
nobody was checking.
That same week, Beijing pressured Papua New
Guinea into closing Taiwan's economic
office, Taiwan's president warned of "red
terror," and Taiwan's drone alliance raced
to build a supply chain with no Chinese
parts in it.
Four stories. One doctrine: you don't need
to fire a shot at an adversary you're
already inside of.
Giovanni Losito
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