Microsoft held talks with TikTok about a deal in 2020, but they collapsed. Later Oracle and Walmart reached an agreement to buy its US operations but the deal was shelved after the Biden administration decided to review the transaction.
The Chinese government has made clear that it does not want ByteDance to divest TikTok, and most people close to ByteDance insist that the company will not sell even if Congress tries to force it.
But a revival of the Oracle deal might not be out of the question if Trump, who is close to its executive chairman Larry Ellison, returns to power.
One early investor, who maintains a significant stake in the company and knows Chew, says ByteDance “hasn’t communicated anything” about the state of play.
Well duh, it was ok until the Gaza thing happened“They are a deeply uncommunicative company. We are trying to find out what is happening,” says the person. “Shou is trying to find out also, he doesn’t know what the hell they are doing. Their belief was that it would never get to this point, that’s what TikTok’s stance was. When I last spoke to Shou, he said it would never get this bad.”
lol career opportunities for Chinese speakers, assuming these news organisations really want to get the news and not propagand.
Finally, China will no longer provide English translation at press conferences!
finally, the Anglo west has its own Tiananmen and dissidents like Assange which should be brought up in every news story about the west.
I seem to have missed that part of history where Josephine Bonaparte was really a man.If he wants to reenact Napoleon then he better be ready for a Waterloo.
What do y’all think of the news that Macron is thinking about sending troops to Ukraine?
Wonderful Royal open marriage!
Who cares if it’s true, let salacious rumours of Anglo corruption spread.
TikTok Is Its Own Worst Enemy
The video-sharing app has received unfair treatment in Washington. But the company’s biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
Russian soft power has grown after defending itself while anti Russian countries like Germany declined in soft power.China's BRAND "SOFT POWER" IS NOW RANKED 3rd In the WORLD, behind the U.S. and the U.K.
For a country that's perceived by many, including by some of us here on this forum having anemic or amateurish when it comes to promoting "soft power" China has done amazingly well. This recent findings bode well for China as a whole despite the massive effort and money from its many rivals not the least amongst them being the U.S.
While India has apparently fallen down to their supapowah ranking of 29th place. Also THE EXTRA ARAB SOFT POWER DOESN'T APPEAR ON THE LIST because the list isn't SOPHISTICATED enough. I wonder what our Arab superpower expert residence would say about this report.
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China's BRAND "SOFT POWER" IS NOW RANKED 3rd In the WORLD, behind the U.S. and the U.K.
For a country that's perceived by many, including by some of us here on this forum having anemic or amateurish when it comes to promoting "soft power" China has done amazingly well. This recent findings bode well for China as a whole despite the massive effort and money from its many rivals not the least amongst them being the U.S.
While India has apparently fallen down to their supapowah ranking of 29th place. Also THE EXTRA ARAB SOFT POWER DOESN'T APPEAR ON THE LIST because the list isn't SOPHISTICATED enough. I wonder what our Arab superpower expert residence would say about this report.
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Well, according to this American genius, it's all done according to plan for China's COMAC C919 to enter the American market killing Boeing and it's proud American excellence in engineering in the process.