USA is using everything in its arsenal to steal TikTok

 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

No other country has ever threatened the USA with either or else

 No other country has ever threatened the USA with the warning - either adopt 'co-operation' or face 'confrontation'. China is not continuing with its diplomatic demeanor or listening ear anymore. China cannot continue in this way, dealing with gangsters and Mafia elements.

China is telling the USA to stop repeating the same old nonsense each time some USA leaders visit China uninvited. China is sick and tired of the USA using the same old bullying tactic in its playbook of trying to extract a good bargain by posturing its 'position of strength' tactic, by first demonizing China and then visiting, hoping the Chinese leaders are rattled by its rhetoric and posturing.

The message that is given to Biden via Blinky upon his return to Washinton is loud and clear. Decoupling or derisking is no longer a fear that China is succumbing to. Rather it is an issue that China is well prepared for.

Yellen had earlier threatened China with financial sanctions on Chinese banks. That tactic already failed with Russian banks and is going to fail even more miserably with Chinese banks. It is going to make the Yuan even more widely adopted and used and accelerate the de-dollarization moves.

The Russian roble that came under sanction by the US and the West was not as widely used as the Yuan today, and China had put in place Yuan swaps with countries in the Middle East, South America and even among ASEAN countries. These are essential measures that China have undertaken, knowing that financial sanctions are a matter that China cannot avoid. As sure as the sun rising, it is coming.

China can always foresee issues very well in advance, just as it did so well in cornering raw materials and commodities that it needs decades down the road. China even set up all the processing logistics that others do not foresee as necessary. Hence China's supply chain is so well oiled that the West will not be able to replicate even if they tried to. China's overcapacity will do them in even if they tried to. Hence the fear of overcapacity expressed by Yellen is not without basis, but it remains China's right to continue to do so.

Weaponization is not the monopoly of the USA alone using the US$. Weaponization can be extended to many areas that have not been thought possible. And that is not lost on Russia and China. And for that, having the capacity to do it is important.

Anonymous

Anglo-Saxon Imperialist laying time bombs everywhere

 The Anglo-Saxon Imperialist are great in laying time bombs that they can exploit when needed.

On the Korean Peninsula, a time bomb is hanging loose and yet to explode once again. In Kashmir another time bomb is ready to explode. In the Middle East, Israel and the Muslims constitute another time bomb that is on the verge of exploding. In South Asia, the division of India and Pakistan is another time bomb that can be exploited by the Anglo-Saxons. In Ukraine, despite promises given to USSR's Mikhail Gorbachev not to expand NATO towards Russia, the USA vis a vis NATO did just the opposite, brushing the promises aside, and that has now exploded into the Ukraine War.

Now in ASEAN, the USA is using the Philippines to create a time bomb to disintegrate the ASEAN community that is tossing out the USA in favour of China. It is a slap on the face of the USA.

In Myanmar, the CIA is undoubtedly creating and financing the rebels in the border region with China and Thailand, to create unrest and instability. The CIA is suspected to be controlling the drug trade in the Golden Triangle and is an important area for them to control and create trouble for China. And that conflict in Myanmar is affecting relations between Thailand and Myanmar.

The next target of the USA is Indonesia, which is still undecided in joining BRICS. The USA is trying to coerce Indonesia to be its sphere of influence in ASEAN and not to join BRICS. Joining BRICS means an end to the USA's agenda in using Indonesia to coerce the other ASEAN states as a whole to reject China. 

Snpnymous

Blinken Circus in China

 When I read what were discussed between Blinken and the Chinese leaders I almost fell out of my chair in disbelief. Blinken told Xi that without China's help, Russia would not be able to defeat Ukraine, and the Russian economy would have collapsed by now. And Russia would likely be destroyed, defeated and under the control of the Americans. This was what Blinken was implying to China.

China must not support Russia, let Russia be isolated, fighting on its own against the Americans. And the Americans can rope in NATO and the rest of he European states to attack Russian like a gang of savages.

What Blinken did not say and think the Chinese are stupid not to know, is that the American strategy is to bring down China, Iran, North Korea, one at a time. After the defeat of Russia, China is next on the list, to be defeated, without any support from any other states. It is the exclusive privilege of the Americans to take its own time to attack and defeat these countries one at a time. China should let Russia fall and wait for its turn to be attacked by the American gangsters. That is the best thing for China to do. Supporting Russia to stay strong is a bad thing to do. Can you believe it? 'China, don't support Russia, after we take down Russia, it would be your turn'.

Can anyone believe that this imbecile went to tell Xi this? It boggles my mind how Biden could ever appoint an imbecile as his Secretary of State. Imbecile Blinken really thinks the Chinese are stupid and would take his order, and wait for their turn to be attacked and destroyed.

And this imbecile must really have convinced himself that China would agree to do as he said. Anyway, the Blinken Circus has left China and nothing would change. The only change perhaps would be greater resolve by China to support Russia to make sure it does not fall. China would also never allow Iran or North Korea to be attacked by the American and western savages and not support them and let them fall.

Come to think of it, Blinken may not be that stupid. He knew it was all a show for nothing, except for him to look important to the daft Americans and getting a free trip to enjoy the good food in China and the bragging right of a photo op with Xi. No one in his right mind would ever think that his foolish agenda would get any result.

Debilitating debt traps by IMF and World Bank destroying African and Latin American countries

 The 'debt traps' used by the USA and the West via the IMF and World Bank had marginalized Argentina and to a lesser extent Indonesia among others, like Pakistan and Bangladesh. This predicament is not lost on the rest of the world.

AIIB was set up to provide an alternative for Asian countries to finance their infrastructure development, hence the name 'Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank'. This puts it in direct competition with the IMF and World Bank.

There have been claims by certain countries that the IMF prohibit its loans to be used for infrastructure development. I do not know if this is true. The IMF and World Bank just wants to extend loans to poor countries to induce a 'debt trap' that these countries find it hard to get out of. Forced devaluation of the victim country's currency was the modus operandi of the West to control the ever-unpayable debts.

That the West still had a strong hold on countries in Africa, Latin America and Middle East is not divorced from the fact that most of these poor countries have taken loans from the IMF or World Bank and have to follow the stringent conditions dictated by the West via the IMF and World Bank.

In that context, the BRI also extended loans to poor countries to build infrastructures for progress and uplift their living conditions, which is in competition with and contrary to what the IMF loans are generally for, which is buying weapons to fight wars created by the USA. That is why the BRI is being demonized by the USA and the West as 'debt traps' for poor countries. Fancy that!

Anonymous