Chinese electronics manufacturers getting tons of orders from Middle East

Understandable if true, but it also seems concerning that Israel was supposedly just throwing bombs in whatever devices could fit them after the pagers were infiltrated. Physical access will always trump any security practice. Israel could easily infiltrate a batch in transit if they had the need to.

That being said, the 2nd best time to dump all of your secure Comms would be just as the enemy gives away that your Comms might be Laden with explosives