Damn there goes the plan to just order 66 the Chinese robot army and have them rise up and bring down the US before they can do a thing about it.

I admit of all the rules they've made this one may make the most sense. Though it's still implemented in a Chinese-phobic rather than rational way as a rational way would include exceptions for those that do not and cannot connect to the internet and/or models whose source code is entirely open source and can have their updates and firmware locally controlled with zero connections to foreign servers.

But the point was never about a realistic rational security assessment but fearmongering to ensure everyone continues to use NSA/eye/zionist entity compromised electronics so they maintain control.