To not see the coming conflict be it cold or otherwise or not see the CCP for what it is is just ludicrous to me.
They want to — and as they should — become to dominant world power and reshape things as they see fit.
They will take Taiwan by force and it is zero sum: either China and its allies become the world’s leading economy and lead on things or the US and it’s allies remain in “power” and the west continues. This is the threat.
Now I’ve nothing against the people of China. It’s the government that I don’t trust.
But on topic I still think the ban is still old men barking at cloud. Somehow embarrassing really.
That's a funny argument, given that the same piece of legislation with the TikTok "ban" also includes a(nother) $60.8 billion package for Ukraine [1].
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/politics/senate-aid-pa...
I feel like all these arguments just come down to “China bad, therefore anything that annoys China is good” which is silly and juvenile reasoning
Reading your comment, it's pretty obvious that we should do something about propaganda here in the EU. About US propaganda I mean.
This way the same thing happens and china did also make some money. I don't see the argument that china having your data is somehow better than your government.
Look: the Cold War is over. And communism is a red herring. The world has changed. For some reason Americas elites view TikTok as a threat, probably because they don’t have the kind of total access to their servers that they’re accustomed to with American firms. But that has little to do with regular Americans. And there’s no argument other than decades old red baiting tropes they can think of to try to get us to care.