Warm up for the election? Pompeo once again offered up the "China Threat Theory", telling Americans to beware of TikTok

Wen/Guan Wenping Recently, former Secretary of State Pompeo of the United States appeared on the Fox News live broadcast and again referred to the "China Threat Theory".
He said that China has penetrated into the cities of the United States and warned Americans to beware of the Chinese short video platform TikTok.
In the interview, Pompeo said, "Every American citizen is under threat from China, and China will destroy the western way of life at all costs.
For us, this is a real challenge." Pompeo (right) also mentioned TikTok several times in an interview with Fox News.
He was very sorry that the US government failed to take more measures to combat TikTok.
"Every American should pay special attention to TikTok and other Chinese social software.
Your children are using social networks manipulated by the Chinese government.
The Chinese government will use TikTok and other software to collect personal information about your children and friends around you." The "China Threat Theory" has risen again.
Now 58 years old, Pompeo once served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States and served as Secretary of State during Trump's presidency.
His remarks came at a time when the US political circles were once again in a frenzy about the "China threat".
Since June this year, a number of Republican dignitaries, in the name of national security, have asked the federal government to thoroughly investigate whether TikTok has obtained US user data.
On June 23, six Republican senators, led by Tom Cotton, sent a joint letter to Finance Minister Yellen, asking the Biden administration to provide relevant progress on TikTok's national security review;
On June 24, the Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from the App Store.
The two "notorious" anti China avant-garde groups, Senator Warner and Rubio, seized the opportunity to appeal twice to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate TikTok and its parent company.
For a moment, the voice of "China threat" and "ban TikTok" spread rapidly.
The TikTok ban event has attracted global attention in 2020.
In August 2020, Trump, then President of the United States, issued two consecutive executive orders to ban TikTok.
After TikTok repeatedly sued the United States government for unconstitutional ultra vires and unfair treatment, the federal court stopped Trump's partial injunction.
In 2021, Biden, a Democrat, was elected president, and the ban on TikTok and other Chinese applications was lifted.
Instead, the U.S.
Department of Commerce was required to evaluate the relevant applications of "foreign competitors".
This move also aroused the dissatisfaction of Republican factions such as Pompeo.
Playing the Chinese card, just to break through the campaign, on July 3 this year, Pompeo shouted on his personal Twitter account, saying "TikTok is under the control of China.
The Chinese government will obtain the social security account, privacy data, photos, etc.
of Americans.
There is no doubt that China is using these personal information to deal with the American people." Pompeo's exaggeration of China's threat is well prepared.
According to the British Times, Pompeo will participate in the 2024 US presidential election and prepare to compete with his former boss Trump, who is also a Republican.
According to the public opinion poll results of the New York Times, 49% of Republican voters said