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Blackmail is still a possibility ...

Plus your data can be sold on the market. To US based entities. While the Chinese still hold on to the data for future uses ...

That still doesn't resolve who is more likely to blackmail or otherwise misuse data. I think it's a Chinese saying: the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.

Can't Chinese government exchange the data with your government whenever they need it?

> Sure but the cops aren't going to pull you over based on what you think about Chinese policy.

You might be surprised to learn that China has operated clandestine prisons in the US!

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/two-arrested-operati...

> "This is gaming the system, changing the post between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073612 edit for clarity: the submitter kept changing the title and body between this and the linked post. This was the "mistaken duplicate" before."

Bruh, I am not "gaming the system", the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) is gaming the system.