Tencent Designated as a Chinese Military Company by US

I mean, I'm old enough to remember Edward Snowden's PRISM leaks. I can't rule out that a Chinese-backed software company is functioning comparably to its American counterparts.

It's just crazy to see how American attitude towards national surveillance has been twisted from "Damn, its bad that the state can spy on me all the time, but if I haven't done anything wrong there's probably nothing to worry about" to "It's important that the people spying on me are Elon Musk and Donald Trump, rather than that evil Xi Jinping."

The reality you live in must be nice. The CCP is just a peaceful little government trying to live its peaceful little life and bring people peace and happiness.

China is a threat though. Destruction of as many computers as possible is a real threat. CCP members being able to request access to control servers and fire employees that might otherwise refuse is a real threat.

So much of this is automated. You request SSH keys for "a review", upload a file to the distribution system, it sends it out as an update, and the update waits for the command and control server to say "go" before sending your credit card numbers from Steam to the CCP and bricking your computer. If it ever happens, it will be over before you know what hit you.

True irony here.

Isn't the South Korean peninsula home to several dozen US military bases?

You don't need to go all the way back to the Han Dynasty to find the charter that gives US the right to militarily occupy the continent indefinitely. The Truman Doctrine seems sufficient.

I said I wondered why, my dude. Past tense. As in "I initially wondered why Samsung wasn't on the list, so I looked up the list, and saw it's only for Chinese companies."

South Korea.

I am always reminded how precise and verbose one must be in text since it's so easy to intend one meaning but have people interpret another.

Seriously! I know that BLUF is a thing but do that many people seriously not read past the first line before feeling the need to correct someone on the internet? @[email protected] as a fellow member of the human race let me formally thank you for forming a question, seeking out information that either confirms or denies your question, and informing everyone else who may have had the same misconception.