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Overbom

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Not that it needed to be said, but still good to have some kind of unofficial confirmation. TikTok is not for sale
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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.
“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.”
Well duh, it was ok until the Gaza thing happened
 

Chevalier

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Finally, China will no longer provide English translation at press conferences!
lol career opportunities for Chinese speakers, assuming these news organisations really want to get the news and not propagand.
finally, the Anglo west has its own Tiananmen and dissidents like Assange which should be brought up in every news story about the west.
If he wants to reenact Napoleon then he better be ready for a Waterloo.
I seem to have missed that part of history where Josephine Bonaparte was really a man.
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That reunion must have been awkward.

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anything to get dumb Americans to fight China, I guess.

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Who cares if it’s true, let salacious rumours of Anglo corruption spread.
 

supercat

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What do y’all think of the news that Macron is thinking about sending troops to Ukraine?
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Who cares if it’s true, let salacious rumours of Anglo corruption spread.
Wonderful Royal open marriage!

Another day, another article from the New York Times that tries to gaslight its readers. How stupid do they think we are?

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.
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The real reason TikTok is being banned:

China is genociding Uyghurs and Tibetans by forcing them to fest (during Chinese New Year) and rebuilding their dangerously decrepit monasteries.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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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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FairAndUnbiased

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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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Russian soft power has grown after defending itself while anti Russian countries like Germany declined in soft power.

I am still not sure what soft power Germany has. Everyone tells me learning German is useless because US already imposed 100% English on them, nobody watches German TV or movies, nobody plays German games, nobody knows German music newer than Beethoven and he's Austrian...
 

siegecrossbow

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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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But it came at the expense of China paying off billions of Wumao world wide. Now their economy is in dire straits because of this unwise investment.
 
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