This is a good argument. This is essentially anything from China is suspect. Solar cells have had hardware "bugs." China switched Samsung radios with their own for spying. Going forward a little bit at a time may make China more willing to...
Im not sure that satellites would be used for that when large-scale ill-disguised hacking campaigns are amazingly effective. As for phone. I think that is true.
You might Google 聚沙成塔 (jù shā chéng tǎ) which is often translated as this “gather sand to form a pagoda” but a more common phrase in the west 积少成多 (jī shǎo chéng duō), which is usually in English” The Thousand Grains of Sand”(note if you know...