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If we played the same as China does, we'd be hacking Baidu through a vulnerability in a Microsoft web browser until they withdrew completely from the American market.

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> If we played the same as China does, we'd be hacking Baidu through a vulnerability in a Microsoft web browser

We don't?

With the goal of driving them out of the US?

I just typed https://www.baidu.com into my browser bar, hit enter, and their page loaded.

Why throw out something hackable? Apparently they couldn't hack TikTok so they thrown them out.

They probably could, but it's become such a pain in the ass, it's no longer worth it.

You can still go to the mobile web version; but that doesn't give the same level of access to devices and data that an app does.

Have you heard of the NSA

I'm not saying we don't hack them.

I'm saying we don't hack them with the goal of driving them out of the American market, which is what happened to Google's PRC operations.

We hacked Huawei and drove them out, but those were separate incidents. I'm not convinced it puts the US in a morally superior position, though.

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