China’s no saint but the level you have been brainwashed to think America is such the great protector of democracy and freedom is typical global-unaware American ignorance.
Even inside China. They need to learn and study other nation's policies and laws to make sure they can continue maintain a society of 1.4 Billion people.
Both US and China would benefit from open competition, in general.
Of cuz, in certain scenarios & times, the discussion is much more nuanced. Like the TikTok discussion here.
Study, yes. Copy or follow, no. China should stay China. We have enough countries trying to dance after the US tune already.
>Both US and China would benefit from open competition, in general.
Absolutely, but not under US rules or law outside the US. Tiktok should be allowed to collect just as much information as Facebook and Google or more if they want to as as long as it legal. This whole trying to make different rules in the US for foreign businesses is worse than what China is blamed of doing. Chinese businesses have more rules to follow in China than foreign businesses. Exactly the opposite than what the US is doing.
If the US won't do business with Chinese businesses because they are sometimes mixed in with the state they are playing favourites because lots and lots of trade is done with state owned and run businesses from other countries, like Scandinavia. The problem here isn't what China is or isn't doing. It is the colour of their skin and that it isn't the capitalist system the US wants everyone to be.
It's not about control, it's about national security. Allowing a company to operate in the US that is practically under control by a hostile authoritarian system is a national security risk.
What I was saying is that China and CCP, in terms of respecting international laws, are behind US.
So here US has the opportunity to continue setting the example.
I of course do not fantasizing US government being purely good.
Only because the US unilaterally decides what international law means. China has not committed any offence of international law anywhere even near that of the Iraq War in the last half-century.
The US only seems good because they set the example. The US literally has the Hague invasion act. It has absolutely no care in the world about international law, international law retroactively changes to suit the US.
That would be news to Mike Pompeo who just lost a big UNSC vote this week.
International law only matters as far as the narrative it sets.