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> 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 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 12 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> 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 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 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 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Chinese ships LITERALLY just cut 3 undersea cables in US allied countries to mess with us.

	▲	dpkirchner 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh maybe we should do something about that and actually treat them like an adversary.