from the weird-and-racist-performance-art dept Last week the Trump FCC quietly announced that it was cooking up a new ban on any labs that have testing offices in China from testing electronic ‌devices such as smartphones, cameras and computers for sale in the United States. That’s going to create some major issues given that roughly 75% of all U.S.-bound electronics are currently tested in Chinese facilities. Many of these operations are owned by U.S. or European companies that have testing facilities in China because that’s where the lion’s share of technology is manufactured , so it’s simply more efficient for testing evolving iterations of new product. That these companies have offices in China doesn’t inherently mean the testing labs are somehow all magically compromised and in dutiful service to the Chinese government , though that’s certainly the implication the xenophobic Trump administration is making (and has made before in previous, similar announcements ).…