well I mean we're doing it to them too. it's not paranoid to assume large countries are engaged in just-barely-sub-causus-belli levels of shit against each other.

But that doesn't make trying to ban or force the sale of tiktok anything more than a depressing/transparent sinophobic propoganda exercise.

It’s not paranoia to think that China and the U.S. are engaged in a cyber conflict. For quite some time China has engaged in cyber warfare to steal American technological secrets and to spy on the U.S. We spy on them. Both nations are adversaries of each other and it’s not paranoia to recognize the blatantly obvious.