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Ban Chinese social media applications

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 26, p. 789. Written by Peter Navarro, Kent Lassman.

Ban Chinese social media applications

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What the document says

“Ban all Chinese social media apps such as TikTok and WeChat, which pose significant national security risks”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 789

The essay says these applications expose American consumers to data and identity theft. It appears in the list of measures the essay asks the next President to adopt as a package.

What the document actually says

“Ban all Chinese social media apps such as TikTok and WeChat, which pose significant national security risks”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 789
That sentence, in plain words

Ban Chinese social apps like TikTok and WeChat. They are a security risk.

What this is about

Some popular apps are owned by Chinese firms. This essay says they put data at risk. It says they should be banned.

What is disputed
What this means is contested

This chapter contains the opposing case. 'The Case for Free Trade', by Kent Lassman, argues the reverse: that tariffs have backfired, that trade policy is the wrong tool for industrial goals, and that the next Administration should ignore what it calls populist ideologues seeking protection. Neither essay is presented as the chapter's conclusion.

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