Salt Typhoon is a serious ongoing attack on lawful intercept systems in telecom networks. There's nothing any individual can do to protect themselves from this, and it's probably deployed everywhere that US style lawful intercept specifications are implemented in telecom networks.

Of course the irony is that domestic surveillance is the attack surface for this exploit.

I would like to be able to weigh the risk of a TP link router being a national security threat against something like Salt Typhoon. But there's a lack of transparency that makes that impossible.

this is a political move, if we apply the reason of security concern to anything. it would affect 80% of things US consume since its directly and indirectly come back to china as a part of supply chain