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Now Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has slammed the brakes on Beijing\u2019s quiet access, ordering a desperate two-week scram\u2026 <strong>Continues\u2026The decision to rip Chinese-linked labor out of the Pentagon\u2019s cloud backbone is more than a bureaucratic memo; it is an admission that the United States may have let its most sacred systems grow dangerously dependent on a rival power. For years, contracts were layered on contracts, subcontracts buried under jargon and legalese, until no one could say with certainty who touched what\u2014and from where. That ambiguity has now become intolerable.Hegseth\u2019s order forces the Department of Defense to confront the uncomfortable truth that digital warfare is no longer a future scenario but a present battlefield. Engineers are now racing through code, contracts, and vendor chains, searching for hidden doors they should have sealed a decade ago. Allies are watching. Adversaries are listening. 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