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It would be blocked. Just last month for example the administration blocked Singapore-based Broadcom from a takeover bid of Qualcomm on national security groun
by floatrock 8y ago
It would be blocked. Just last month for example the administration blocked Singapore-based Broadcom from a takeover bid of Qualcomm on national security grounds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/technology/trump-broadcom-qualcomm-merger.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/technology/trump-broadcom...
Not a fan of any of these folks, but if Trump is willing to do a USPS audit pony show just because he's in a kerfuffle with Amazon's WaPo, an international takeover of a large media conglomerate is highly unlikely.
- mulmen 8y agoAmazon does not own WaPo. This distinction is important.
- mieseratte 8y agoHow about this, the guy who owns the Washington Post is the founder and a major stakeholder of Amazon.
- floatrock 8y agoOf course not. The point is billionaires get into pissing contests by attacking whatever flank or asset is the easiest target.
- InitialLastName 8y agoI don't think you can generalize this to "billionaires". More like "one specific 'billionaire'".
- solarkraft 8y agoWhile blocking large foreign buyouts is probably a win for the US I still wouldn't trust the admin to do so reliably. Just throw a few hundred bucks their way.