ByteDance 60% owned by international corporations and American corporations are major shareholders

 Trump is talking about selling Tik Tok to many people - Elon Musk, Oracle and others. He does not even know if ByteDance will even want to sell Tik Tok to any USA entities and he is acting as if he alone can make the decision.

China has not said much about the ban so far, leaving ByteDance to decide whether to take Tik Tok out of the USA completely arising from the ban. Trump is basically talking to himself about the intended sale as if it is a foregone conclusion.

China already reaped all the benefits of the Tik Tok fiasco, having used Rednote to educate USA Tik Tok refugees about the real China. This is already a big bonus for China and is exposing the lies of the USA and the West, a very big counter to the Propaganda Machine of the USA.

ByteDance, a Chinese company, has to consider the stance of China regarding its sale of Tik Tok to a USA entity. China is no longer fooling around with the USA and has to guard Chinese technology closely from falling into the hands of the USA.

China is quietly advancing in AI, with Deepseek R-1 tested and proving its competitiveness against Open AI, the owners of ChatGPT and Google AI that are also involved in similar research. The cost of pushing out Deepseek R-1 was also said to be just a fraction of what it took the others to get their system functioning after years of investments. Deepseek R-1 is also reported to be open source, which means free to use by others. This is a game changer.

Anonymous

Trump could be the black swan event for the USA

 USA needs a revolution. Trump will bring it on. Trump is going to isolate the USA from the rest of the world. Trump is making enemies everywhere and everyday turning against allies and friends. With Trump in office, the USA does not need enemies. Trump is the enemy.

In the midst of all the madness of Trump against even allies like the EU countries, the South American countries and even neighbors Canada, how does the USA hope to sell its bludgeoning debts and to whom and how does it hope to be able to print more money? The USA can continue printing, but those will become banana notes in the hands of USA citizens. Would they need a revolution to be honest?

What we are witnessing is a self-destruction of the USA. USA Presidents past and present knew that the USA has problems that they cannot solve and are just kicking the can further and further down the road for their successor. Trump could be the final scapegoat inheriting the 'can' that had been kicked down the road for decades. What now is practically unsolvable in the USA? The USA debt is unsolvable and unpayable. The homelessness situation is unsolvable, not to talk about it escalating. Now there is the cost-of-living issue being brought up by Tik Tok refugees accessing Rednote and getting the shock of their lives. Will USA citizens continue to live the lie that they had been fed with for decades?

Anonymous

Can public transport system deal with 10m population?

 USA's economy is all about money printing and weapons sale. Red Dot's economy seems to be all about bricks and mortar, and therefore suitable for Indians. I agree that Trump's H-1B policy is some cause for salivating for Red Dot.

Having said that, our MRT trains are already becoming like in Japan, which may need employing pushers to push people into trains like sardines during peak hours if this goes on. People living in Sengkang and Hougang have been complaining about not being able to board trains during morning peak hours due to overcrowding. But i guess this is the situation all over the island.

Ten million population must be a sick joke by sick politicians. Of course, they have comfortable cars to travel in, so they do not have any problem at all. Sometimes people living in glass houses pretend to be blind, when they were supposed to be able to see everything around them. But they only see what they want to see, not what they do not want to see.

That brings me to talk about living in Hougang during the 70s, 80s and 90s, with traffic jams the norm every morning. It was traumatic going to work and getting caught in perennial traffic jams, day in and day out. Complaints were never addressed, with Politicians not believing in the situation for decades on end. It was only when a transport minister facing repeated complaints (if I remember correctly, it was Mah Bow Tan) who took the trouble to board a bus during peak hours from Upper Serangoon towards the city that he saw the situation clearly. The decision then was that they need a MRT line in the Northeast to mitigate and solve the long-standing congestion and hence the North-East MRT line was constructed and opened in 2003, on top of numerous other roads widening and viaduct construction. Of course, with development slated in Punggol, the traffic problem had to be addressed.

Anonymous

First they grab your money, now they grab your land. No, it is not China, it is the USA!

 USA will make all the cars for their home market as they could not ever compete with Chinese EVs sold outside the USA in price and innovation. USA citizens will have all the freedom but do not have a choice even in buying a car.

China will be making all the cars for its domestic market, BRICS countries and the Global South. There is no need for China to quarrel with the USA about tariffs even if it rises to 1,000%. It is a non-issue if Chinese EVs do not have to sell in the USA. That would make everybody happy. Chinese EV makers happy, USA consumers happy, China happy, BRICS happy, Trump happy and the Global South also happy.

So, what is the problem? Uh Oh, lest I forgot, Trump is going to make many countries part of the USA - Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Panama for a start of his global ambition. Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Singapore may follow soon. Even the Gulf of Mexico is not safe from the USA imperialist ambition. Then China may have a problem selling to those countries.

When the USA starts seizing territories and countries, everyone would be asking 'Who is next', just like the seizure of Russia assets. Not all countries are as dumb as what the USA thinks, only some. Same as the saying - You can fool most people most of the time, some people all the time, but not all people all the time.

Anonymous

American authoritative regime is so amazing and so are the American hillbillies

 The Empire of Lies have been spreading the lie that Russia and China have been locking up their citizens, restricting their freedom and controlling them with strict and authoritative rules and laws and keeping them undernourished and deprived within their poor countries. Life in China and Russia are tough and fearful and with little freedom.

The truth that is now revealed and discovered by the Americans through the Xiaohongshu or RedNote app is that the Americans are the real victims, kept poor and deprived and with little freedom by the authoritative American regime, controlling their lives with lies and deceit. The amazing thing is that the Americans that were lied to, and kept in the dark of what is happening in China were not illiterate peasants but well educated Americans, supposedly well informed and intelligent individuals. The other amazing thing is that they have been kept in the dark, in a prison without walls by the Empire of Lies for so many decades, from young to mature adults, without the ability and curiousity to want to find out the truth themselves, willingly believing in the American lies as the truth without question. The other amazing thing is that the internet was invented by the Americans, and they have full access to information around the world. Oops, only fake information provided by their main media.

Why are these amazing things happening to the Americans for so long? The Americans are like the elephant that has been brainwashed to believe the thin piece of rope around their legs is as strong as the previous chain that they were tied to. The Americans have been so conditioned to believe all the lies that the American regime have been telling them, believing in all the fictions and distorted truth fed to them in their main media. And they only found out that they have been lied to for their whole life by accident, by peeping into a Chinese app only to be shocked out of their life. They could not believe that what they saw and heard about life in China were true initially. When the truth was showered on them like cold water, they were literally in shock. How could the American authoritative regime, which they believed were all goodness and champion of truth, democracy and freedom be lying to them with outright lies? And another amazing thing that they found out is that the Chinese govt that was so demonised by the American regime did not lie to the Chinese people.

How are the well educated and naive Americans, supposedly intelligent people, going to take this revelation that the American regime is the real nasty liars that deceived them and cheated them for so long and that the Chinese people are actually living a better life than them and the Chinese govt is working very hard to better the life of the Chinese people? On the other hand, the American regime is robbing them of their hard earned money and making life very expensive, very hard and tough for them to get by?

Even I am amazed by this discovery, that the American people have been lied to by the American regime with fake news and disinformation for several lifetimes. In a way I too cannot believe that the American govt, every day gloating about human rights, about freedom, about freedom of choice, free speech, could go so far to lie to the American people and wrapped them up in a wall of lies and disinformation so effectively and so easily.

Now, after discovering the truth, what are the American people going to do about it? Everything is so amazing when the good guy that the Americans believed wholeheartedly is the real devil in disguise. And some Americans are still in denial, refusing to believe what they see and hear in the RedNote app.