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horse said:

This also sounds like the TikTok executive was subpoena to go testify at this US Congressional Subcommittee. This is stuff I saw out of those Hollywood movies.

So anything that executive says is under oath, and is evidence.

If he lies, then he is going to jail.

Should be interesting. They will not like what he has to say. LOL.

Truth hurts! Butt hurts, big time!

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Like that hearing of Facebook, a lawmaker asked Zuckerberg about Facebook monitoring WhatsApp chats and gathering data, and how FB uses the data of the chats, MZ responded saying that FB doesn't and can't monitor the chats, as they are encrypted end to end.

MZ didn't mention that only the NSA can decrypt the chats though (my speculation only).

KYli said:

TikTok is anything but China. Banning TikTok is purely political and economical. It has nothing to do with national security. Anyone with a ounce of brain knows that.

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TikTok is ‘digital fentanyl’

CNN - TikTok is an addictive drug China’s government is providing to Americans, says the incoming chairman of a new House select committee on China.

GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin told that he calls TikTok “digital fentanyl” because “it’s highly addictive and destructive and we’re seeing troubling data about the corrosive impact of constant social media use, particularly on young men and women here in America,” and also because it “effectively goes back to the Chinese Communist Party.”

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TikTok is ‘digital fentanyl’

CNN - TikTok is an addictive drug China’s government is providing to Americans, says the incoming chairman of a new House select committee on China.

GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin told that he calls TikTok “digital fentanyl” because “it’s highly addictive and destructive and we’re seeing troubling data about the corrosive impact of constant social media use, particularly on young men and women here in America,” and also because it “effectively goes back to the Chinese Communist Party.”

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Damn... Now TikTok will be regulated as an illicit drug..

Opium war 2.0 in the metaverse, but I thought Facebook was on top of that already?

that would be kinda like if the US prohibited export of encryption software because somehow it was considered a digital munition...

Oh wait ...

9dashline said:

Damn... Now TikTok will be regulated as an illicit drug..

Opium war 2.0 in the metaverse, but I thought Facebook was on top of that already?

that would be kinda like if the US prohibited export of encryption software because somehow it was considered a digital munition...

Oh wait ...

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I mean, when US wages war on drugs drugs always seems to win.

A Yomiuri Shimbun reporter accompanied the team this time. The 997-ton Shinsei Maru survey boat, with Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama and Tokai University researchers commissioned by the city aboard, arrived at an area about three kilometers off the southern coast of Uotsuri Island at around 7:50 a.m. Monday. The researchers flew a drone several times to within 300 meters of the island and took images of the surface.

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And then:

CCG kicked them out like bouncers throwing bums out of a bar.
With all that mayor and stuff on board I bet they were trying to sneak some signage onto the island if CCG wasn't around.

CCG got something like 5 ships around Diaoyi Islands currently, including the 76mm gun armed 2501:

broadsword said:

Prohibiting Warren Buffet from holding on to his stake in BYD is a good start.

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Considering BYD is looking into autonomous driving(AI!) it is fitting Warren Buffet sold some of it.

supercat said:

Yes, it's too late too little.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1620094653394567169

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The only way they can compete with China is by lowering their superior labor standards like the high wages they like to have to think they're richer or the worst nightmare going against that is China has a far superior economy than the US therefore wages in China would rise.

Like I've been saying... the West is screwed in the future and the only way they can save themselves is by taking over the world like they did that got them to where they're at today. Good luck when the world has the ability to strike back in their homelands with nukes. That's why the West has a bleak future.

According to the BBC, vegan meat in China = fake meat

Bellum_Romanum said:

How so

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Vietnam and Indonesia recently agreed on their respective EEZ boundaries. Which, surprise, they include parts of China-claimed SCS maritime zone. Basically, Vietnam and Indonesia are teaming up to face China on SCS

When I first read about this I was wondering why they were using the Hindenburg analogy.


If this were China, you know what they would be saying... I don't see them reporting the end of India on the cable news channels. They must be very conflicted since they want to make anything not Western look bad but then they need India as their non-white that follows the West to counter China.


Look at US tech companies cutting thousands of jobs each. No doom for Silicon Valley? That's what they were saying about China's Silicon Valley they said was under attack by Xi. All the Wall Street types are happy and saying wonderful things about the Chinese economy since dropping zero COVID. I thought they said China was at its end.