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Donald Trump is keeping open the Chinese Communist Party’s “window on the 170 million of us with TikTok accounts”, says Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times. I spent 5 years as the Times’s Beijing bureau chief, living in a bugged apartment and being tailed everywhere I went. And to be fair, when China bought a Boeing 767 as its presidential plane, they found 27 US bugs hidden inside. We spy on them, and they spy on us. “But we shouldn’t make it easier.”
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