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[hullopilllw]

Not looking good for Meng

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Imagine how quickly ByteDance CEO would have caved if he had a daughter and they kidnapped her...
But then again I guess TikTok isn't a strategically critical to Chinese tech ascension compared to Huawei/5G

Frankly honestly I don't even know why US gov is going after TikTok unless they believe it has the potential to integrate with China digital Yuan and overthrow the US dollar...

Control of speaking rights(话语权) on social media domain, esp for an app with global reach.

 

[zgx09t]

I did... one of my card has 35k credit line.....a Chase Sapphire platinium... the other two are 10k each...

I live in Texas, in a worst case they cannot do wage garnishment even if I dont pay back, they sue me and win a judgement etc. I mean sure laws can change, but the way I see it if US attack China in SCS or elsewhere get kinetic, all bets are off anyway.

I only making 90k, compared to most ambitions Chinese its very modest, so I cannot live a good lifestyle, now Im signing up credits on sites like whatyourprice, going to dates and fine dining with women that otherwise as they say to paraphrase Bruce Lee movie, I would not otherwise had a "Chinamans chance"

How's your dining and wining going so far, Tidal? Seeding the world with your DNA?
Caught a few clams and crabs checking hoes out?
Bless your heart.

 

[BMEWS]

How's your dining and wining going so far, Tidal? Seeding the world with your DNA?
Caught a few clams and crabs checking hoes out?
Bless your heart.

I'm not Tidal dude.... lol... seriously...

But here is a different kind of Tidal wave

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[B.I.B.]

I already thought about that. I was born in China but migrated over with my parents at age ~5. Now I can speak Mandarin on average level but cannot read or write Chinese. I have US passport so I gave up my Chinese citizenship long time ago. I talk with my cousins back in China on WeChat and jokingly have asked them to "prepare a room for me" for "when the time comes", and they are all saying like "you cannot come back, no flights yet", and probably feel I would be a burden on them if I did showed up... and my parents are still very naive about all of it and don't believe the US government will ever cross into such areas or take such drastic actions and they have no plans to ever go back (the whole "too much momentum/Inertia thing) themselves... my Dad is about to retire next May and no way he is going anywhere. I only have a younger sibling brother, who was born in Dallas and he is in the US Army, totally naive tool that believe just because he is extra Pro-USA that when the time comes they won't go after him as well... he let the whole WestPoint/ US Army/ US gov propaganda get to his head...

But once flights resume and assuming I can hitch a flight, yeah that is something I'm definitely putting on my credit card for sure. I'm going around asking all my Chinese friends and my parents Chinese friends to let me borrow money and I say I will pay them back in 2021 with interest....

I'm not a stocks guy, I think the best investment is to convert money into raw experiences by frontloading life as much as possible as part of risk mitigation (anyone can die in car accident any given day) and also the fact that the true time-value-of-money is in reverse, at 65 you cannot enjoy life as much as when you were 25, even if you amassed 10000x more money... a lot of people are greedy in that they want to live a long time to 85+ but I'm content to live say no more than 65+ as long as its about quality and not quantity... human body starts decomposing after age 20, women peak at age 24 whilst men decline in earnest each year past age 30... I think its better to compress that into the prime rather than stretch out allocations for retirement planning etc... just a more strategic perspective on getting the most out of life the proper way.

Yup Live Fast, Die Young, and Leave A Good Looking Corpse........Willard Motley

 

[AssassinsMace]

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If Pompeo goes as low to have his dog mauling a Winnie the Pooh doll, some one should dress up a pig and shoot a bolt in its head.

 

[BMEWS]

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If Pompeo goes as low to have his dog mauling a Winnie the Pooh doll, some one should dress up a pig and shoot a bolt in its head.

Pompeo talks about teaching sunday school church lessons, being a force for good for humanity, and having to constantly fight the CCP "until the rapture"...

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Guys like Pompeo are very dangerous because they believe their own kool aid... he seems like a true believer type.

 

[localizer]

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Oh God, I'm loving this.

Indians are saying they were dumb to not have thought of the same.

They're calling Americans liars for not immediately banning Tiktok. They feel like they were tricked into doing it.

 

[Petrolicious88]

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Oh God, I'm loving this.

Indians are saying they were dumb to not have thought of the same.

They're calling Americans liars for not immediately banning Tiktok. They feel like they were tricked into doing it.

So Bytedance is forced to sell the company. And my understanding based on what Trump is saying is that Bytedance will also have to pay the US Treasury to complete this deal.

What kind of gangster business is Trump running here. Forcing someone to sell their business. And then asking for a payment because “he let you sell it”.

If Bytedance or China agrees to this deal. Then they deserve to be bullied!

 

[BMEWS]

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Oh God, I'm loving this.

Indians are saying they were dumb to not have thought of the same.

They're calling Americans liars for not immediately banning Tiktok. They feel like they were tricked into doing it.

India doesn't have the sanctions leverage... Trump puts Bytedance on US entity lists means Apple and Google are forced to remove the TikTok app on all their platforms and endpoint devices... worldwide/internationally, only US can pull something like this off, India can only restrict/ban inside of India while Amerikkka is abusing its platform monopoly as bona fide sanctions leverage to harass and extort a successful China company that has done nothing wrong.

I think China needs to hit back at Apple...
And if they end up selling it, to MSFT is better than to Google.
Google is pure evil.

The only silver lining is this has necessitated China making its own OS/software ecosystem and sharing it with the rest of the world to offer alternative options. Everyone is now seeing the real America and USA's true colors... this was never about national security.... they are going after DJI next...

 

[BMEWS]

So Bytedance is forced to sell the company. And my understanding based on what Trump is saying is that Bytedance will also have to pay the US Treasury to complete this deal.

What kind of gangster business is Trump running here. Forcing someone to sell their business. And then asking for a payment because “he let you sell it”.

If Bytedance or China agrees to this deal. Then they deserve to be bullied!

Trump wasn't able to make Mexico pay for the wall so now he can brag to his base that he finally got China to pay for the privilege of giving TikTok to the USA. Make no mistake, Trump is intending on personally pocketing a lot of money from this transaction... after this he might actually end up a real billionaire for once in his life...