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cboel t1_jdiyyv7 wrote

Reply to comment by One_Atmosphere_8557 in China authorities raid US due diligence firm, detain staff by VIRGO_SUPERCLUSTERZ

>retaliation for whatever the CCP has their collective panties in a bunch about this week.

It is and China isn't even being diplomatic about it either.

>Neal Dunn, a Republican from Florida, asked with similar bluntness whether ByteDance has “spied on American citizens” – a question that came amid reports the company accessed journalists’ information in an attempt to identify which employees were leaking information. Chew responded that “spying is not the right way to describe it”.
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>src: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/23/key-takeaways-tiktok-hearing-congress-shou-zi-chew

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JubalHarshaw23 t1_jdjdox4 wrote

Ironic that a Republican from the state trying to criminalize Journalism, is the one complaining about China spying on journalists.

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bobby_j_canada t1_jdlypdw wrote

Yeah, we're now entering the "petty tit-for-tat political grandstanding for your domestic audience" phase of the US-China relationship.

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