Former President Donald Trump likes to claim that he’ll get tough on China should he be elected president on Nov. 5. Trump’s actions last week strongly suggest otherwise.

First up, Trump came out in opposition to a looming U.S. restriction on the TikTok social media app. He says the app is less of a problem than what he described as “enemy of the people” Meta. This is presumably because Meta previously banned Trump from Facebook. But Trump should understand that while TikTok is a servant of the people, it’s not a servant of the American people. It’s a servant of the People’s Republic of China. TikTok exists under the Chinese Communist Party dominion.