So you are saying that if the US audited the entire TikTok cloud stack and code, this all could have been avoided ?
I find the Tiktok ban more of a geopolitics thing, less of a national security reponse.
You cannot just make assertions about something, and without substantiating them _adequately_, say 'they just told a lie, so everything that they said are lies'.
This is rooted in an anti-China rhetoric and only undermines the US position since for more than a decade many western companies' complaints against Chinese partners were about forced technology transfers.
Edit: correct wording and grammar
It wasn’t something random, he lied about the CCP’s access to Americans’ data. It almost doesn’t matter that he lied—the truth per se is enough to warrant suspicion.