I would disagree with both. The biggest threat is that if a war was to erupt between us, these tplink routers would raise red flags and announce you the enemy of communist China.So going by the comments TP-link is bad because
1) it's Chinese spyware
2) it's insecure
For 1, where is the proof? (Also where's the proof that Huawei did?*
For 2 ehh, yeah welcome to routers.
As for Huawei, they were found to be aiding CCP allies with American tech. They were no less than caught selling 4g to Iran. That is when their representative was arrested, in Canada I think.
I do not believe TPlink or any other Chinese gadgets are dangerous just because.
But as I said above, every one of these things will aid China if we go into a conflict.
And the problem with China, the one problem that people should have learned well is that you
never know when a dictator decides it is time to write his name into history books by returning every piece of land ever owned by his ancestors.
The West happily traded with Russia for tens of years. But when it recovered from USSR collapse, it went to the old way, openly attacking neighbors and committing war crimes. USSR existed to expand. Which was supposed to be a lesson, not about USSR, but about how Russian mentality works. The biggest country on earth needs a bit more land for happiness.
These lessons must be learned before it is too late to fix these mistakes.
It was not done with Russia, it will be x10 times harder with China which actually can make a computer or 99% homemade rocket.