They are not the first ones to say this. Remember, Snowden leaked material about a similar hack the FBI pioneered.
Then there is this earlier article:
http://defensetech.org/2012/05/30/smoking-gun-proof-that-military-chips-from-china-are-infected/
My question is considering the difficulty in detecting this supply chain hack, why WOULD’NT the Chinese government be doing this?
I have absolutely no doubt that they ARE doing this. What they are NOT doing is what Bloomberg's idiotic argument is claiming. That is a smokescreen that obscures the REAL thread which YOUR linked article TRUTHFULLY describes. Using a stupid chip on a motherboard is an EASILY FOUND stupid way to do it. The article above is the way they are REALLY doing it.
Bloomberg is talking about the Chinese as if they and we ARE STUPID. . . It is as if we could tell the Chinese Spies in our industrial and military systems because they are wearing signs, saying "I am a Chinese Commie Spy!" and go around like the bad guys in Mad Magazine's "Spy vs. Spy" cartoons. They aren't that stupid and (I hope) we aren't that stupid either.
Bloomberg seems to think we all are. That is why I am POINTING THE STUPID FAKE NEWS blame at Bloomberg because they are aiming our attention at the WRONG TARGETS!!!!