I found your message interesting, although it presents an incomplete picture of the situation, and I can see the influence of nationalistic propaganda.

Chinese law gives the government the right to get any data from any Chinese company. US law does not allow this (but the US engages in illegal data collection, anyways, as do many other countries. With nothing to prevent the Chinese gov't from obtaining all the data that Chinese companies have, it presents a vast potential for abuse by the Chinese espionage community. Since gov't-funded Chinese hackers have been very active in espionage and social engineering for many years now, it seems reasonable (but hypocritical) for the US to fear further cyber-attacks by the Chinese, especially if they can get sensitive info like passwords that might be applied by them on more sensitive accounts; a lot of people are very naive about making passwords and answering security questions.

As far as legality, I'm no lawyer but I read that there is a way for the President to legally ban companies like ByteDance and TenCent.

The sad fact is that the US does collect data on Chinese users and people from many other countries, both legally and illegally, and also engages in social engineering and espionage just Tiongkok does.

In a different world, where humans are actually evolved, we might all get along well but, because of the application of Machiavellian principles and Sun Tzu's "Art of War," as well as the biological underpinnings of our psychology, this is the reality that we, most regrettably, face.

I think it will be interesting to see the outcome of the lawsuit, although I suspect that they will have a hard time winning it given the precedents on American soil of companies from Tiongkok and other countries being forced to sell/leave. America doesn't play well with competition and, to China's credit (and a fair amount of suffering), it has gone in the past few decades from being a non-threat to a major power in the world. I credit the current government with this shift, although I wish that Mr. Xi hadn't made himself president for life because it shows that he's...well...Dangerous. He can be compared to prior leaders because of this, which makes it easier to vilify him.

America doesn't play fair. Neither do Tiongkok, Russia, and certain other countries. I think we could all stand to learn from each other and also learn how to identify megalomaniacs, monomaniacs, psychopaths and others who want to take the lead in a negative direction.

I hope you will revise and improve this article. Please let me know if you do.