Also the keystroke part seem technically entirely not true and location is only partially correct.
The Chinese government is motivated to have US citizens angry and unproductive.
While productivity and happiness are not the same thing, I am personally far less worried about how my government would influence me than how China would influence me.
meanwhile, we're
- pretending that inflation has landed and is not being resisted by the Feds
- deregulating all the anti-trust accomplishments we made over the years to drive up prices
- pantomiming at best the idea of affordable housing as housing prices surge
- increasing homelessness and unemployment nationwide Something the modern job market does not help with as more job postings than not are fake to hire non-americans (or no one at all).
- deporting immigrants while Trump likely grants even more H1B-s to billionares,
- starting multiple trade wars because Trump is showing the definition of insanity by imposing tariffs again. When last time we lost thousands of jobs and billions of dollars over it.
But yes, banning the chinese app that actually gave some income to young american citizens suffering the worst from the above was done in a snap, relatively speaking. I'm ambivalent on the actual ban, but I can't blame american tiktok users being absolutely fervent with the bald-face hypocrisy going on.
Real wages in all income brackets are at an all-time high (apart from a short blip during the pandemic), and overall have surged since the start of the pandemic. See e.g. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employed-full-tim....
If you don't been devastating. Now watch it go down in 2025 and unemployment get worse for Americans as well.
If the United States government gets its hands on that information, "it's not just a national security threat, it's a personal security threat," Hawley (should have) said.