''' Still, U.S. lawmakers and administration officials have favored shutting down the application altogether to send a message to China after Beijing restricted

''' Still, U.S. lawmakers and administration officials have favored shutting down the application altogether to send a message to China after Beijing restricted American companies like Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. White House adviser Peter Navarro on Monday said in a pair of interviews with CNN and Fox News that he wasn’t sure Microsoft was the right company to buy TikTok’s U.S. operations, saying it had helped China construct its internet firewall. “Should we trust any company that operates in China?” Navarro told Fox News. ''' What else is there left to do but to prepare for war then? If your basic position is that maximalist. There's nothing left to negotiate over. It's you or it's me. Now the implications are no longer just Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese-Americans. It's potentially anyone who has business ties or otherwise to China.