ممنوعیت ابزارهای خارجی: تمام اخبار مربوط به سرکوب فناوری‌های چینی توسط FCC

A gavel prior to an open commission meeting at the FCC. | Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images What do drones , routers , and Roombas have in common? The US government wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the first consumer gadgets that are facing de facto import bans because of the US government’s xenophobic stance — and they might not be the last.

Originally, the US government was just worried about US networks. It’s been distrustful of Chinese telecom equipment providers Huawei and ZTE for well over a decade , eventually requiring telecom providers to “rip and replace” their gear . (Many telecoms have still failed to do so .) It established an “Entity List” for companies whose gear should be banned from import, marketing, and sale.

But under the second Trump administration, that list has been weaponized against entire home consumer gadget categories too — starting in December 2025 when Trump and Brendan Carr’s FCC banned all future foreign drones unless their companies obtained a waiver.

Next was a ban on all future foreign routers, all future foreign robots and power inverters , and within the robot ban, all future foreign robovacs. In each case, the government claims it’s because those gadgets fundamentally pose an unacceptable threat to US national security. But in each case, the US has provided zero public evidence of a threat, has done nothing about existing drones and routers and robots that might pose such a threat, and hasn’t given us any reason to trust that its waivers have anything to do with security .

Besides, there are rarely any US companies to fill the gaps left by foreign ones. Consumer gadgets are largely made overseas, including practically all routers and practically all drones — just like how your Apple, Dell, and HP laptops are not made in the US.

In this StoryStream, we’re following the latest on the foreign gadget bans.

Will TP-Link really make routers in the US? Here’s what it told us

It sure would be nice if these congresspeople would say why DJI is a threat.

Unlike Netgear and Asus, TP-Link says it’s prepared to spend $1 billion to make Wi-Fi routers in the US.

The FCC plans to ban all Chinese labs from testing US gadgets by 2029.

The Matic is the first robovac to get an FCC ban waiver, not that it needs it

Etsy is worried it’ll get caught up in the FCC’s gadget bans.

HoverAir’s transforming modular drone has already been halted in the US

That lying drone company we caught? The FCC has now banned Odyssey Robot.

DJI camera clone company Xtra claims it’s ‘in close communication’ with the FCC.

DJI camera clone company Xtra is halting and refunding all preorders

The FCC is planning to retroactively ban disguised DJI gadgets

The FCC is cracking down on DJI tech that dodged the foreign drone ban

The FCC is saving Amazon’s Eero and Leo routers from its ban, too.

The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason

Asus is the latest with a nothing statement about the US router ban.

The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US

The FCC just gave itself the power to make a DJI drone ban stick

Xtra: the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US

DJI couldn’t confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban

DJI explains why it won’t stop drones from flying over the White House — and what happens in a US ban

US targets TP-Link with a potential ban on the Chinese routers