Americans lying about TikTok ownership

 Trump threw a red herring about a 50:50 ownership of TikTok between China and the USA. This is impossible because China does not own TikTok nor ByteDance. ByteDance is 60% owned by international institutions, and the three major shareholders are American companies. The two Chinese shareholders of ByteDance are its creators, and they only own 20% while the balance 20% were own by its employees. And ByteDance is a Cayman registered company, not a company registered in China.

Technically and legally, ByteDance is not a Chinese company. In the same manner, ByteDance Chinese owners proportionally own only 20% of TikTok. If the employees' shares are included, the Chinese ownership will be only 40% of TikTok. The international institutions, mainly Americans, already own 60% of TikTok.

Trump and his legal advisers cannot miss this point, and to keep on harping about a 50% ownership is just a lie, a ploy. China does not have 50% of TikTok shares to sell to the Americans. And the Americans already own 60% of TikTok, more than what Trump is asking for.

So, what is the big fuss? TikTok is as good as already own by the Americans with 60% of the share ownership. The Americans are experts in laws and not to notice this is plain trickery.

What is the real intent of the Americans for kicking such a big ruse on TikTok to the point of banning it?

Trump's H-1B policy must be making Singapore salivating

 Trump's new immigration policies including changes in H-1B visa and automatic citizenship for those born in the USA are whipping up a storm for foreigners chasing the American Dream. 18,000 illegal Indian migrants are identified for immediate deportation. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. The legal Indian migrants entering the US under the H-1B visa scheme are also starting to worry about their future in their land of dreams. One sticky point is citizenship for their American born children that would be scrapped if Trump has his wish come true.

There are several millions of professional Indians in the US. Some are starting to have second thoughts about staying in the US for the long run, to become American citizens. Those Indians in Canada are also facing the same question. And the situation would be the same if Canada becomes the 51st state of the USA.

A small percentage of this Indian diaspora could mean a few hundred thousand of Indians available and will be on the move. And very likely their first choice would be Singapore. Many of these could have already acquired Singapore pink IC or PR status and returning to Singapore would be easy. With Singapore's craving for foreign talents to replace the no talent Singaporeans that are only good to be jig workers and hawkers, Trump is doing Singapore a big favour. Singapore can open its legs wide, wide to receive more Indian talents from the USA.

Would a big influx of Indian talents flooding Singapore be good enough to make the 6.9m target? Or would the 6.9m be raised to 10m seeing how easy it is to attract foreign talents and with so many available and willing to become Singapore citizens? One thing for sure, despite the low fertility rate, the demand for housing especially HDB flats would continue to grow exponentially, and HDB would be making bigger losses as it builds more and sell more flats to Singaporeans and new Singaporeans. And more green lungs would be cut down to make way for more HDB flats.  Poor wild animals would have no choice but to invade HDB estates to find more living space.

Singapore would be the biggest beneficiary of Trump's immigration policies and those leaving America would have no fear of nowhere to go. Singapore will welcome them with open arms. Singapore will prosper with more jobs created by the foreigners for Singaporeans. Food delivery workers and hawkers would see a surge in their businesses and income and could live a better life.

What do you think? 

USA honestly needs a revolution

 USA honestly needs a revolution to have any chances of changing. Rednote could be that catalyst for a revolution in the making, as the realization is too profound and shocking for USA citizens, at least for those unable to make ends meet. Not being able to afford food and lodging is what will drive people to be really desperate. And some of the Tik Tok refugees do sound really desperate, some in tears and some cursing the USA Government.

Some USA leaders had even been broaching the idea of banning USA citizens from visiting China not too long ago, when China started opening up, but could not afford a reason to do so, which if done would never be tolerated if it is to be called a democratic country. Businesspeople, for example, cannot be prevented from going to China. Now, USA citizens do not even have to travel to China to see for themselves. The interaction between ordinary Chinese Rednote users and Tik Tok refugees are already eye-opening events. For them it is a better, cheaper and faster way to learn the truth about China without even having to travel there.

Sometimes change comes unexpectedly and without preparing for it. This is one such instance that is becoming historic.

Anonymous

Slave wages to fight fire in America

 Trump will use the nuclear option if the Los Angeles fire does not die out after he assumes office, LOL. He will detonate a nuke inside the city to stop the fire from spreading, the same kind of nuke he wanted to fire into a hurricane to stop its destruction, LOL again because it is funny. Trump sometimes sounds like a kid too used to kidding others.

Biden already tried using incarcerated people to become firefighters, paying them slave wages, said to be US$10.24 a day to do the job, which obviously did not succeed. Working for US$10.24 a day must be an insult to those incarcerated people. Now they are reported to be training more of them to be firefighters, upping their wages to US$30 a day. Wonder if they will call it 'slave wages', which I think it is. Anyway, this is what the Chinese call 'building a toilet when the urge to poo is intense'. If this is the USA formula of taking care of disasters and catastrophes, what happens when there is a hypersonic nuclear missile attack?

Not to worry about no takers for free training to be firefighters though, as Biden has just pardoned about 2,500 of them to be trained as slaves to fight fires, LOL. USA has all the manpower to do great things.

Anonymous

Why USA home security and military can buy and use Chinese made drones?

 If USA home security and military can buy and use Chinese made drones, where is the issue regarding and about National Security? It is all a lie to deny USA civilian usage knowing that any comparison between DJI drones and their own is slapping their own faces. China is not exposing it as those are obviously not the top-notch military drones used by the PLA, but social media vloggers like Kevin Walmsley on 'Inside China Business' is a site well-respected for digging up sources that showed the reality. Because the Western MSM does not talk about it and China is not exposing it, it is assumed that nobody knows about the hypocrisy of the USA Government.

There are reasons outlined by Kevin Walmsley why USA made drones are not reliable for certain purposes. For help and rescue missions involving difficult or higher elevation terrain, USA made drones tend to lose contract up to a certain distance or further up mountainous regions. DJI drones are reported to be more reliable in all terrain and weather conditions, and the most important reason of all is they are much cheaper.

If there is a reason to doubt the superiority of DJI drones, one just has to ask why the Ukrainians are buying DJI civilian drones and modifying them for its military use. Even the Israelis are reported to have no confidence relying on the performance of USA made drones. Expensive and inferior makes all the difference.

Of course, one other reason for the USA banning Chinese drones is to protect its own drone manufacturers, which is the same modus operandi as using tariffs to protect its EV makers that are finding it impossible to compete with BYD.

Anonymous