The global video surveillance market is in a new era. Where technology once flowed freely across borders, driven purely by cost and innovation, today’s vendors navigate a fractured landscape carved by geopolitics fault lines. Trade restrictions, procurement mandates, and diverging national security frameworks are no longer peripheral concerns; they are core business drivers reshaping where equipment is made, who can buy it, and what it costs. Between mid-2023 and mid-2025, this shift accelerated dramatically, marking a transition from sweeping policy declarations to hardened enforcement and cascading market consequences. Our new video surveillance report covers all the geopolitics impacting the global market. The Geopolitics Era: US/China Tensions Intensify The central conflict remains between Washington and Beijing. But the nature of that conflict has evolved. The US Federal Communications Commission has tightened enforcement of existing equipment bans, making it significantly harder for restricted vendors to re-enter through partnerships or rebranding strategies. The tariff on Chinese semiconductors is […]