Senators introduce bipartisan bill to address Chinese tech

(CNET)

Two senators want to create an office for handling foreign technology threats, especially those from China.

In a bill introduced on Friday, Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, and Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, proposed creating the Office of Critical Technologies & Security. The proposed group would deal with foreign technology threats by coordinating efforts across government agencies, as well as private companies, such as telecommunications providers.

The US government has been concerned with supply chain threats from foreign technology for years. Those potential threats have ranged from software by Russia's Kaspersky Lab to hardware from China's ZTE and Huawei.

Warner and Rubio singled out threats from Chinese technology, noting that China has been behind multiple state-sponsored attacks against the US. Read more