‘lol hey guys!’ Biden’s TikTok debut underscores his contradictory China policy

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On Super Bowl Sunday, President Biden launched his campaign’s first TikTok video, captioned “lol hey guys.” In the video, he talked about the game and joked about whether Taylor Swift’s relationship with Chiefs’ player Travis Kelce is somehow part of a conspiracy to re-elect him. Campaigning for the votes of “Gen Z” is understandable. But should any U.S. president be using a Chinese-owned, Communist Party-controlled social media platform to win re-election? During his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in November, Biden said he wanted to “de-risk,” the U.S. economy from China, not to decouple entirely. But is he de-risking?...