WELL, GOOD: US trying for ‘clean network’ by banning ‘untrusted Chinese apps’ like WeChat, TikTok.

Related: India, Jio, and the Four Internets. “The driving impetus of the China model is, first and foremost, control over information. This is evidenced by the fact that not only does China control access to Western services at the network level, but also employs huge numbers of censors for the Internet within China, and expects Chinese Internet companies like Tencent or ByteDance to have thousands of censors of their own.”

So long as mainland China hides behind the Great Firewall — that is to say, for as long as the mainland is ruled by Communists — giving them access to endless petabytes of U.S. data and metadata is a grave mistake.