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This deal is from May 2019, well before anybody was talking about banning TikTok.

• kutorio 6y ago
  It's not hard to imagine them planning ahead. In fact you can argue that the parent company ByteDance has planned for such existential risk by setting up TikTok as a separate entity from Douyin.
  • justicezyx 6y ago
    That of course was the case. Mega corporations are as powerful as small sovereign nations, they have to behave like one...
• donedealomg 6y ago
  I disagree, many countries where already investigating TikTok in 2018. They had time enough to prepare.