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China’s Farm Drones: A Trojan Horse Washington Overlooks

War on the Rocks · Jun 18, 2026, 2:45 PM

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In 2024, Emilian Kavalski and Claris Diaz argued in “Beyond Tik Tok – The National Security Risks of Chinese Agricultural Drones” that the national debate over foreign social media platforms risked becoming too narrow, potentially causing Washington to overlook other foreign technologies embedded in critical systems. Two years later, we asked them to revisit their arguments.Image: MB-one via Wikimedia Commons In your 2024 article, you argued that Tik Tok’s data collection risks were overhyped and that fixating on them distracted the United States from more serious Chinese technology threats, like agricultural drones. Two years and several TikTok ban cycles later, has your view The post China’s Farm Drones: A Trojan Horse Washington Overlooks appeared first on War on the Rocks.

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