Fair point! Counterpoint: Western countries tend to use national security to push back against effective competition (see also: EVs), so I don’t think it’s strictly a technical or knowledge issue, and that while eventually there will be competition, whether or not we can legally buy it might matter more.

(Whether security concerns are valid is a separate point outside the scope of my comment: on one hand, Wi-Fi cameras you buy are basically botnet members, on the other hand the allegations against (IIRC) supermicro were never (haven’t checked in a while, could have changed but I’d probably have heard already) substantiated so the whole “embedded surveillance hardware” theory is still a theory, meaning we should expect the quality of the firmware to be inconsistent. Not exactly something new: consumer BIOS/EFI tends to be buggy, manufacturers focus on the enterprise versions)