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The cognitive dissonance is stunning. China is a closed system, corrupt, opaque, and doing business there risks being murdered if you don’t grease the right pal
by monero-xmr 2y ago
The cognitive dissonance is stunning. China is a closed system, corrupt, opaque, and doing business there risks being murdered if you don’t grease the right palms. Or if you greased the right palms today, but in 5 years you bribed someone who’s out of favor, could get death.
Chinese business crying foul over simply forcing an app to change owners is the pinnacle of hypocrisy.
- bearjaws 2y agoThey even had 4 years to IPO, it's not like the ban was unknown.
- russli1993 2y agoThe IPO is blocked because of the threat from US government.
- grajaganDev 2y agoThey had months to sell TikToc and chose not to.
- russli1993 2y ago[flagged]
- monero-xmr 2y agoWhy did they disappear this economist after he said growth numbers were suspicious? https://www.wsj.com/world/china/top-economist-in-china-vanishes-after-private-wechat-comments-50dac0b1 https://www.wsj.com/world/china/top-economist-in-china-vanis...