Politicians Want Trade War w/China, Americans Don't

The Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is now the most downloaded app in 140 markets worldwide, including Apple's App Store and Alphabet's Android Play Store. To say American consumers are enthused about China's recent breakthrough in artificial intelligence is an understatement, given this vast popularity. This dovetails with U.S. consumers' love of TikTok — an app owned by a Chinese company and foreign investors (including American investors.) If this doesn't sufficiently illustrate our desire to transact with China, consider how, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's upholding of the TikTok ban, many of TikTok's 170 million U.S. users opted to move their social media accounts over to the China-based platform RedNote, with the mainstream media sounding the alarm that this app's data practices are allegedly worse. Politicians will surely claim their TikTok ban was a massive success anyhow.