This is why the US government pushing a national security angle to this is idiotic. They should have made a simple trade reciprocity argument: essentially every non-Chinese social network or communication app is blocked in China, and until that changes TikTok wouldn't be allowed to operate in the US. Simple, impossible to argue with, and doesn't blow back on any US companies.
When the concern is national security why would they push a trade reciprocity argument?
You do know that Biden cannot just lie and get away with it right? Unlike in authoritarian countries, nearly all American records will be unsealed within a single generation.
Further, the press usually gets the wind of stuff being hidden.
That doesn’t stop the government from trying to hide stuff and they often succeed, but why would they take a chance on something like this which gives them an extremely tiny benefit at best.
He literally lies nearly every time he speaks and doesn’t care if something will be “uncovered”, like any other US president before him. Bush lied about Afghanistan and Iraq. Zero consequences. Obama lied about Syria and Libya - zero consequences.
