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by BugsJustFindMe 518 days ago
Only the control by a foreign adversary part is being threatened in the US, not the algorithmic opium part twisting the minds of the population. They're two different things. The US so far has no qualms with it if an American is in control of the strings. That's where China differs.
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JumpCrisscross 518 days ago
> The US so far has no qualms with it if an American is in control of the strings. That's where China differs

Legally, there is no issue with TikTok being Japanese, Korean, Indian, Saudi, Polish, Ugandan, Brazilian or Mexican. Just not owned by a foreign adversary country.

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BugsJustFindMe 518 days ago
Yes, thank you. I've updated the earlier sentence from "foreign control" to "control by a foreign adversary". It's indeed the fact that China is a geopolitical enemy-to-be that's the problem.
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ryandrake 518 days ago
But, they're also something like our third biggest trading partner. China is like a Schroedinger's Adversary: Simultaneously an adversary and a friend, until you ask a politician and the wave function collapses and he picks one.
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JumpCrisscross 518 days ago
> Simultaneously an adversary and a friend, until you ask a politician and the wave function collapses and he picks one

Which politician argues China is a friend?

We bought Soviet oil in the 1970s [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_trade_of_the_Soviet_...

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dpkirchner 518 days ago
Don't fool yourself or fall for the propaganda: China is hardly an adversary -- just look at how much money we send them and how many goods they send us. If they were truly an adversary we'd be treating them like we do Russia.
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JumpCrisscross 518 days ago
> If they were truly an adversary we'd be treating them like we do Russia

As you said, we trade with them extensively. We didn’t tighten the screws on Russia until it actually invaded Ukraine. Until Xi actually invades Taiwan, it’s profitable to pretend.

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daedrdev 518 days ago
Chinese ships LITERALLY just cut 3 undersea cables in US allied countries to mess with us.
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dpkirchner 518 days ago
Oh maybe we should do something about that and actually treat them like an adversary.
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