Over at The Verge, Sarah Jeong recently decided to weigh in on the controversy over TikTok, the White House’s effort to restrict U.S. use of the app, and the regime of Xi Jinping.
From the outset, Jeong makes it clear that the (strong) legal argument against the administration’s executive actions does not really interest her, writing that “the legal dubiousness of this move is the least strange thing about it.” It is instead the notion of opposing TikTok and, more broadly, of being uniquely skeptical of the CCP that shocks Jeong. “Is the United States better, worse, or the same as China?” she asks. “In 2020, this is becoming a genuinely difficult question to answer.” (As an aside, it is absurd to suggest that the United States of 2020 is worse than the United States in the eras of Jim Crow, chattel slavery, or the Trail of Tears.)
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