Answer: somebody got paid.

Why would anyone want to manufacture in the US? Tariffs on components would rape your margins

That picture though 😆

This is not information we should expect from Asus, and Asus is right to not provide it to the press. This information should come directly from the United States government in an honest, transparent, and verifiable release. If the government is unable to provide such a release, then we are left to wonder what the government did that was so shady that they won’t follow even the most mundane of bureaucratic processes. Par for the course for the current administration, unfortunately…

Probably all they had to do was buy a bunch of crypto "currency" from World Liberty Financial. Nothing to see here.

I stopped buying Asus routers because they fucking suck.

There's a router ban?

Bitcoin donation to the fucking Orange Menace

paywall

Asuswrt-Merlin has been nice to work with otherwise I'd not really go with Asus.

They paid the bribe money to Mafiusa.