Aside from the politics, I can't say I disagree starting with TikTok, but what about all the countless other Chinese applications they otherwise still allow tha

Aside from the politics, I can't say I disagree starting with TikTok, but what about all the countless other Chinese applications they otherwise still allow that do even worse things unknown yet? Much as the other recent incident with Pinduoduo randomly adding spyware to their feature set. Every gadget with wifi, every game/app on our phones from random unknown International sources are a potential weapon of unknown potential payloads with a remote update. As a Network/Security engineer, I personally trust American companies as little or less than anything Chinese, but I know nothing good comes from anything connecting to or from there for 99% of everything most of my non-international customers of mine or I do. They simply do not play by ours or any rules but their own. Given my druthers or by request with a capable firewall with geolocation, I gladly block anything to/from China and most anything outside the the US, particularly SLED/FED or regionally local to US only businesses. Not that I endorse isolationism, but as a practical engineer, it would likely save our incumbent non-security-savvy sheeple (or simply lazy businesses) from more blatant direct attacks and siphoning of data at least from the less tricky foreign villains without their own domestic botnets. If later I actually do need to send something to/from blocked geolocations, there will be an exception policy for it that shall be documented.