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Yeah, but like the CCP don't really care about TikTok/ByteDance. Or at least they didn't, until this happened. They would care about Tencent or Alibaba, but B
by disgruntledphd2 6y ago
Yeah, but like the CCP don't really care about TikTok/ByteDance.
Or at least they didn't, until this happened.
They would care about Tencent or Alibaba, but ByteDance isn't big or important enough for the party to care.
- ThomPete 6y agoOh they care. A lot. They care about anything that gives them access to western data so that's just wrong. They care quite a lot about TikTok as it provides a potential backdoor (given that the CCP defacto owns bytedance) That's the problem.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoThe sources I'm familiar with (mostly the FT) claim otherwise. See for example: https://www.ft.com/content/0c42dc7c-b927-477a-90b7-a202bbe4bc50 https://www.ft.com/content/0c42dc7c-b927-477a-90b7-a202bbe4b... Or also this: https://www.ft.com/content/61988d2d-4c95-4a35-8273-d6980af04114 https://www.ft.com/content/61988d2d-4c95-4a35-8273-d6980af04...
- ThomPete 6y agoThat article is mostly an opinion piece not really about the nuts and bolts of US intelligence concerns. I love FT and I subscribe to the paper but I see more anti-trump sentiment than an actual argument there.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoLike, when a President who disagrees publicly with his own intelligence agencies claims that something is the result of intelligence, I am very sceptical. I'm very sceptical of US intelligence justifications in general (and have been since 2003) but even more so under the current administration. "I love FT and I subscribe to the paper but I see more anti-trump sentiment than an actual argument there. " I really don't see any anti-Trump sentiment there, can you clarify what you mean?