The USA is using everything in its arsenal to force
TikTok to be sold to a USA entity. China tells Joe Biden to 'go back to
sleep' and forget about it. Biden could hardly keep his eyes opened, and
sleep is what he really needs. Is he on drugs I wonder?
The USA
continuously accused China of stealing Western tech from those USA
entities having joint ventures with Chinese manufacturers. In any joint
venture between partners, there is always an element of tech transfers
and partners cannot work together if they resort to keeping whatever
advantage they have from their joint-venture partners. What then is the
purpose of having a joint venture? That is therefore realistically not
stealing, but co-operating, for the mutual benefit of both joint-venture
partners. But the USA twisted this around to demonize China and accused
China of stealing USA tech.
Here, we have TikTok in the USA that
is competing so well, with more than 170 million users in the USA, with
Joe Biden and his Democrat followers themselves even using the platform
for their Presidential campaigning. And yet they accused TikTok of
violating USA laws and pronounced TikTok guilty. What the USA is doing
is basically wanting to steal TikTok's operating formula, stop users
from posting anti-Israeli videos and above all eyeing the tech that
makes it so popular. Byte Dance must never, under any form of coercion,
ever sell TikTok to any US entity. Let the USA and EU ban it and be done
with it.
Since the USA keeps repeating the mantra that TikTok is
collecting user information for the Chinese Government as the main
reason for its persecution, leaving the US and EU market makes sense.
Byte Dance should concentrate on expanding the user base in the Global
South and the countries in BRICS. Most users will welcome that rather
than having the app fall into the hands of the USA and being curtailed.
By
not letting TikTok fall into the hands of the USA, users can continue
to post and talk about issues regarding Israel's genocide in Gaza. This
was the real reason that some people believe was instrumental for the
crackdown on TikTok, fostered by the Israeli lobby in Congress, not the
spying on user accusation which is just a lame excuse to musk the real
motive. Of what use are user information that China wants?
Anonymous
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Elon Musk was supposed to go to India but postponed that trip. Instead, he is now in China and given the privilege of meeting Chinese Premier, Li Qiang. What can we gather from all this? It will be something interesting going forward.
Musk should know that investing in India is going to be problematic, with the shortage of engineering talents in India. The Indian education system had all along been about churning out graduates to cater to India's service industry like call centers, not engineers for manufacturing expansion. That is India's dilemma. It will take years to remedy that situation, like the USA today. Musk cannot afford to wait, knowing the EV industry is going through a revolution rather than a renaissance. Innovative ideas comes about tomorrow rather than months or years down the road.
There is now a spat between the USA and India over human rights in Manipur. The USA is caught in a bind, knowing it needs to criticize India or be accused of double standard in its criticism of China for the same issue in Xinjiang. Truth be said, the USA is discreetly interfering in India's internal affairs in more areas than we know off.
The USA is attempting to force India to stop helping Russia in the war in Ukraine over its energy trade with Russia, simultaneously doing the same with China. China already has given the USA its stand of continuing its trade regardless of the financial implications that Yellen had threatened. The USA has not yet threatened India in like fashion, knowing that India is still a useful pawn for the USA to use to counter China. India must know that what the USA is doing to China will one day be their turn to be demonized, what with all the boasting that India is pumping out about its ambition to become a superpower and becoming the 'factory of the world'. That means competing with the USA in every endeavor and capacity like China, right or not?
Trying to 'flash a broadsword in front of Guang Yu', is going to kill the Indian dream faster than anticipated.
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