Basically, I believe that 'there is nothing the state (power) can't do if it wants to.

For example, if I am targeted for assassination by the state, my death is certain.

Even if I were to turn back an assassin, the state would send the next assassin.

Unless the state changes its policy, the assassins will be sent back again and again, and there is no way to escape them.

The current furore about the "Chinese government trying to extract personal information from TikTok" is still beyond a suspition.

However, if the Chinese government wants to do it, they "will" do it.

This is a definite matter.

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On the other hand, the fact that information was extracted by the Chinese government has not yet been revealed in the previous case of Huawei's telecommunications equipment.

(Since at least the technical verification should have been completed, it is possible that it is being kept undisclosed to the public and is being used as a bargaining chip between governments.)

Anyway, the United States is a country that can assume that there are weapons of mass destruction, launch a war on its own without a UN resolution, completely collapse its system, and then say with impunity, "We searched but found no weapons of mass destruction.

And I still remember the bitterness of the "Super 301 economic sanctions" unilaterally imposed on Japan in 1989.

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I was watching the US hearings on TikTok on the news, and I am sure that

"the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII was also determined and implemented like this"

Now and then,

"Once they identify someone as an enemy, they can do whatever they want, without regard to laws, evidence, or anything else"

I think this is the DNA of the U.S. government.