“ The United States calls on our allies and partners in government and industry around the world …” – I wonder, who are those? I’m no longer sure I know
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 @dhh
6 Aug 2020
We went from vague talk of The Tik Tok Threat to its expropriation to banning ~all hardware and software made by Chinese companies in 5 mins. About as long as it took US media to go from timid objections to calling the horse race on Tik Tok’s new owners 👏 state.gov/announcing-the-exp…
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Doubts about that can't be taken very seriously in Europe until it starts building the military to deal with certain invasive powers on its own
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Replying to @saarw
I used to place quite a bit of trust in the US in the past in that regard, too

Aug 6, 2020 · 5:00 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
Trust seems intact among the European politicians who would otherwise have to allocate increased defense spending