This comment is utterly inappropriate for HN.

> I could tell from the title that this was just going to be racist but I didn’t expect the racism to happen this early into the article lol.

There is, objectively, no racism here. You are intentionally introducing a politically-charged tangent in order to deflect from the points presented in the article.

> Just because a company is based in China doesn’t mean it is fully controlled by the CCP

This is objectively false. China has a law that literally compels Chinese companies to do whatever the government wants, with zero restrictions.

>Just because a company is based in China doesn’t mean it is fully controlled by the CCP,

If I were a non US company I would automatically assume said company is fully controlled (or I should say compelled) by the US .gov to gather information on foreign companies and governments. US companies such as Apple have had to outright public battles with the .gov to stop this data collecting, and we've learned again and again a large portion of companies just go silently with it.

What I would ask is, do you think China is not asking their internal companies for this information. And if you think no, how nieve do you have to be?

>"Just because a company is based in China doesn’t mean it is fully controlled by the CCP..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprises_of_Chi... "State-owned enterprises accounted for over 60% of China's market capitalization in 2019"

The CCP owns controlling shares is most Chinese companies, including tencent.

In the US the government can secretly spy on your data by jumping through various legal hoops. In China the government gets such data as a matter of routine.

I'm concerned with the CCP government using their controlling shares of Tencent to surveil computers around the globe with their kernel-level software for their own national security interests.

Is that racist?

It's not racist to point out the CCPs ties to a company. You equating the CCP to be "The Chinese" is actually speaking more to your own racism as you can't differentiate from the government and the people it supposedly "represents"