What I also find funny, besides China pulling the wool on the West like this, is that Vietnam seems to be doing the exact same thing (they now seem to be where China was maybe 20 years ago), and the West is falling for it again

It’s like they were asking for that essay

I think even libs can’t say you’re being unreasonable if you give them these reasons why you shouldn’t care about the alleged spying, at least not without slowly painting themselves in a corner as sinophobes. I genuinely can’t imagine what unhinged reply they’d come up with if you tell them “Western companies also spy on you, and you live in the West, not in China”. But I’m sure they’ll find something