StrangersInTheNight posted:

are they really though? wtf are they doing that's so insidious to America, specifically.

they're a business rival but only because our current system depends on there being nations with a lower cost of living than us to make our goods, because we literally can't afford the goods we make for ourselves at the rates we get paid. and so we turned to china, and it used being in such a position to gain leverage and world power and somehow all of that leads us to here, this moment where our response is trying to ban tiktok for the second time with our conditions being that the Chinese can be involved in its administration but shouldn't own it/make money from it.