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Not really. Tiktok is bad because all of the sudden China became bad. It wasn't bad few years ago; some western countries such the UK loved to say how good China is. The U.S apps are "good" because they are PRISM-enabled and your have nothing to hide from the U.S gov, right?

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> It wasn't bad few years ago; some western countries such the UK loved to say how good China is.

Hmm. What are you basing this on?

A quick google search may bring you some results. Until very recently(i.e the Huawei thing) the main idea was that China is the best thing since the sliced bread. I believe leaving Europe and focusing on China was seen as the next step in trade and foreign policy. That didn't age well though...

>> In 2015 George Osborne, the then chancellor, promised a ‘golden decade’ for Chinese-British relations as he drummed up support for new trade opportunities and inward investment.

There was a lull when globalist enthusiasts, such as Osborne, were more than happy to sell us out. China is a distinct evil that should never have been allowed to hack our economic system with their hyper scale authoritarian meat-robot control systems. People are not people to the party any more than cells are alive to anyone making a game of life clone

It all started to go downhil when Xi decided he wanted to become the Chinese Kaiser.

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