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manqiangrexue

Brigadier
Dayum, that's some impressive levels of stupid. It's one thing to fuck shit up really badly like the Americans; at least it was very difficult to anticipate the TikTok Refugee movement on XiaoHongShu. I likened it to a bad mistake, like a crab accidentally crawling into a hotpot but this is like a crab seeing his friend crawl into the hotpot, get his dying corpse picked out in a writhing scalding heap, then deciding that that looks pretty fun; he wants to try it too!
 

jiajia99

Junior Member
Registered Member
I Am surprise that these Estonia leaders think they actually matter in the world. If for some reason Russia decided to invade Estonia and purge its leadership, I honestly doubt anyone will miss them but to be fair if Russia finally decides to purge the entirety of Ukraines leadership, I doubt many people would be too sad to see the green tee shirt and Budanov gone from the world either
 

TK3600

Major
Registered Member
The fact that Tiktok voluntarily shut down its US service a few hours before an enacted law says a lot, under the circumstances (1) it doesn't have to do so proactively; (2) its CEO is one of the five tech boys invited in Trump's inauguration; (3) Tiktok popup specifically calls out its pending plot with incoming Trump administration. I bet there was already a deal between the "concerned parties" that Tiktok will be back to the US under the Trump administration, and by so doing, Tiktok will be regarded as a pro-GOP social media along with twitter, all the while Chinese government is silent in the background. Chinese government is also uncharacteristically sophisticated in handling the XiaoHongShu situation.

In the coming days and weeks, my guess is that:
(1) Tiktok will resume its service in the US, while "concerned parties" start negotiating a long term solution under the bargaining table.
(2) Tiktok gen Zs will start tilting toward Trump admin which is good for its mid-term election in the near term.
(3) DNC will lose more young voters in the next four years.
(4) Trump 2.0 will relatively be more "friendly" toward China given the sign that Hang Zheng is attending the inauguration and Trump called Xi the day before.
(5) Trump 2.0 will likely be a de facto G2 show on the international stage.
G2 but with America as the junior position. Biggest plot twist of the century.
 
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