https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/01/29/why-everyone-is-freaking-out-about-a-white-house-plan-to-nationalize-the-countrys-next-gen-data-networks/

The intelligence community views network equipment made by Chinese companies with close ties to Beijing as insecure, officials said. But the federal government has rarely taken a direct role in building such networks, making the proposal remarkable in its ambitions.