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by steveBK123 435 days ago
This deal is dead. Why is China going to play ball now with the new tariff regime? They've already launched retaliatory tariffs this morning.

Trump wants to tariff $800B of Chinese goods 54%, do you think Xi cares about a $50B TikTok deal by comparison, this is peanuts.

He kills domestic industries on a whim, why does he care about the US branch of a social network?

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> why does he care about the US branch of a social network

Indeed he doesn't, since ByteDance is primarily owned by non-Chinese institutions and individuals anyway.