top | item 43583722 White House reviewing TikTok proposal to lease algorithm from China 3 points| elfbargpt | 11 months ago |nhpr.org 2 comments order hn newest steveBK123|11 months 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? _t9ow|11 months ago > why does he care about the US branch of a social networkIndeed he doesn't, since ByteDance is primarily owned by non-Chinese institutions and individuals anyway.
steveBK123|11 months 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? _t9ow|11 months ago > why does he care about the US branch of a social networkIndeed he doesn't, since ByteDance is primarily owned by non-Chinese institutions and individuals anyway.
_t9ow|11 months ago > why does he care about the US branch of a social networkIndeed he doesn't, since ByteDance is primarily owned by non-Chinese institutions and individuals anyway.
steveBK123|11 months ago
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?
_t9ow|11 months ago
Indeed he doesn't, since ByteDance is primarily owned by non-Chinese institutions and individuals anyway.