White House reviewing TikTok proposal to lease algorithm from China nhpr.org 3 points by elfbargpt 7 days ago
steveBK123 7 days ago This deal is dead. Why is China going to play ball now with the new tariff regime? They've already launched retaliatory tariffs this morning.Trump wants to tariff $800B of Chinese goods 54%, do you think Xi cares about a $50B TikTok deal by comparison, this is peanuts.He kills domestic industries on a whim, why does he care about the US branch of a social network? eagleislandsong 7 days ago > why does he care about the US branch of a social networkIndeed he doesn't, since ByteDance is primarily owned by non-Chinese institutions and individuals anyway.
eagleislandsong 7 days ago > why does he care about the US branch of a social networkIndeed he doesn't, since ByteDance is primarily owned by non-Chinese institutions and individuals anyway.
This deal is dead. Why is China going to play ball now with the new tariff regime? They've already launched retaliatory tariffs this morning.
Trump wants to tariff $800B of Chinese goods 54%, do you think Xi cares about a $50B TikTok deal by comparison, this is peanuts.
He kills domestic industries on a whim, why does he care about the US branch of a social network?
> why does he care about the US branch of a social network
Indeed he doesn't, since ByteDance is primarily owned by non-Chinese institutions and individuals anyway.