White House reviewing TikTok proposal to lease algorithm from China

3 points | by elfbargpt 7 days ago

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• 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?

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  • eagleislandsong

    7 days ago
    > 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.