>If you consider all Chinese apps suspect, then it doesn't make any difference whether they're connecting to another app or not.
>For anyone who doesn't already think Chinese apps are automatically their adversary...
I think we're drifting from the original context. My point was that some people, including many in U.S. Congress, do take issue with at least some Chinese apps (let's just say TikTok here). This concern is at least partially WRT its data collection/handling and espionage. So any other apps that connect to it (or its parent company's products) and provide data would obviously also be viewed as problematic.
Incidentally, this isn't necessarily related to whether that other app is China-based.
You brought in the question of whether U.S. companies would face similar scrutiny for connecting to other U.S. companies, and I was merely explaining the difference.
>For anyone who doesn't already think Chinese apps are automatically their adversary...
I think we're drifting from the original context. My point was that some people, including many in U.S. Congress, do take issue with at least some Chinese apps (let's just say TikTok here). This concern is at least partially WRT its data collection/handling and espionage. So any other apps that connect to it (or its parent company's products) and provide data would obviously also be viewed as problematic.
Incidentally, this isn't necessarily related to whether that other app is China-based.
You brought in the question of whether U.S. companies would face similar scrutiny for connecting to other U.S. companies, and I was merely explaining the difference.