A Chinese success story wants to make it in America. But Jeffrey Chao and his router company must first rebut the national security concerns of China hawks in Washington, led by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
Illustration by Luis Grañena
When Jeffrey Chao was studying for his master’s in computer science in the early 1990s, he would sometimes spend so many hours in the lab that he would return to a locked dormitory. After climbing through his dorm room window at 2 a.m., Chao, who was then at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, would wake up at 8 and do it all again.
It was the beginning of a journey that led to the establishment of TP-Link, originally a Shenzhen-based manufacturer of computer networking equipment. The company wo
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