[halfmatthalfcat]

Is it any more odd than China strong-arming the NBA, lest they are barred from operating there?

If TikTok wants the American/European market and they’d sell the company in order to so, that’s just the reality of working within the current geopolitical landscape.

[xster]

Wouldn't the logical equivalency be for China to strong-arm the NBA to sell ownership to a Chinese company if they want the NBA to continue to be watched by Chinese audience?

[dodobirdlord]

> Wouldn't the logical equivalency be for China to strong-arm the NBA to sell ownership to a Chinese company if they want the NBA to continue to be watched by Chinese audience?

Indeed. The real equivalent would be when China prohibited AWS from operating datacenters in China, forcing them to instead operate out of Chinese-owned datacenters.

[xster]

Well no, it's not that complicated.

To make it as illustrative as possible, your example is like the child of an American goes to work in China and China says, if you want to work, you need to use my shovel.

My example is like the child of a Chinese goes to work in America and America says you need to be adopted.

[dodobirdlord]

Not really. AWS would like to run a datacenter business in China the way they do everywhere else in the world, but that happens to be illegal in China. Only Chinese companies are permitted to run datacenters. This seems like an exact parallel of the US deciding that social media companies that want to operate in the US have to be US companies.

[xster]

Oh ya, that would be. Though the OP and this whole thread is about forcing a sale of the company's ownership, not whose data center it's running on. So again, the equivalent would have been for China to force Amazon to sell it's China equities, not share part of it's China assets to a Chinese company.

[moreorless]

They do it, so we should too. Got it.

[brandonmenc]

Yes. Exactly. Welcome to the real world.

[moreorless]

Then it is high time we get off our high horse.