‘Abusing state power’: China lashes out at US over TikTok bans

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"The US government 'has been...abusing state power to suppress other countries’ companies', Mao Ning said at a daily briefing on Tuesday."

This surely must be one of the all-time great comedic pronouncements by any government anywhere.

It's impressive that despite all evidence that the statement he made is right, you still find people who believe the US is always innocent

You already forgot about Snowden and the NSA?

Few examples:

spy on foreign industries: https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/290615/revealed-m...

spy on transactions: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...

spy on foreign secrets: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/business/us-snooping-on-c...

covert agents in civil companies: https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

bis: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-space-exploration-spacex-...

What is their intention of statements like this knowing that they themselves ban foreign social media?

Probably the same intention they had when they were brimming with outrage over their spy balloon being shot down: pure posturing for the sake of appearances.

Of course China abuses state power to the hilt, and if an American spy balloon appeared over mainland China, they'd take it out of the sky without a second thought. Government PR is hypocrisy and propaganda to the core; credibility, or any semblance of moral consistency, was never the expectation or the intent.

That is a silly accusation.

If I were a Chinese propagandist, I would instead point to the irony of the U.S. complaining about a tase of its own foreign influence medicine (which I would debate but is still kinda a valid point).

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