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Worlds of difference between those countries and functioning democracies.
Kim Jong-nam was assassinated in public, at an airport in South Korea. It's not like these folks are limited to their own borders. How many hours is a transpacific flight again? No doubt that "not pissing off the Chinese government" is one of the many reasons Mayer won't be speaking freely about the U.S. selloff in public.
As a European I find this whole story very confusing. A president that can just force a specific company on very short notice to shut down operation, is very concerning. What is even more concerning is that a lot of people here tend to agree because of the China thing. If it is that important, why is there no law that enforces this?
How did you feel about the COVID shutdown? Millions of businesses were just forced by government on very short notice to shut down operation
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That doesn't stop the parent company from being beholden to CCP's demands.
Facebook is also behold to the US government demands, as we have seen in the hearings during the last few days.
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I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that we are at the beginning of a war and we have a Commander-in-Chief who lacks the intellect, attention span, or perhaps even work ethic required just to utter a coherent sentence.
>I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that we are at the beginning of a war We are not at the beginning of a war. I recommend you go outside for a breath of fresh air.
I met him a few times when he was at Disney and was impressed by him. Wonder what he will do now. (actually Disney as a company impresses me even though I don’t like the product).
What did he do to impress you?
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If I had to read between the lines, his leaving is signalling that Bytedance is digging into their position selling the minimum number of assets (US + 4 eyes) and the negotiations are reaching the crucial stages. Previously there was still hope of selling TikTok globally. More importantly it seems that Kevin/TikTok has no influence at all in the negotiations - it is purely between Bytedance and the relevant companies…
his usefulness expired, and now HQ want to control the nego directly. Just like any foreigner used as a local hired gun.
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If I had to read between the lines, his leaving is signalling that Bytedance is digging into their position selling the minimum number of assets (US + 4 eyes) and the negotiations are reaching the crucial stages. Previously there was still hope of selling TikTok globally. More importantly it seems that Kevin/TikTok has no influence at all in the negotiations - it is purely between Bytedance and the relevant companies…
his usefulness expired, and now HQ want to control the nego directly. Just like any foreigner used as a local hired gun.
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Is Tesla's wholly-foreign owned Shanghai plant enough to see to believe, or does Musk need to compare Xi to Winnie the Pooh first? https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2154674/tesl...
It’s one data point.
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I honestly cannot see why you'd think I would listen to what he said and use that to form a general opinion of his leadership capabilities. How one talks about fondling random women is not something I'd use as a measure of their ability to lead a country >Trump talking about random women, who are not his wives nor in a relationship with him as to how he just kisses them and they let him since he has the power is for…
> How one talks about fondling random women is not something I'd use as a measure of their ability to lead a country Holy bejesus. And how is his ability to lead a country? Do you think it is as good/poor as how he seemingly treat random women? On the topic of ethics, how about the ethics of having sex with (and then paying off) a porn star, that's not gossip since the courts have basically confirmed Stormy Daniels t…
I don't agree with this. Being a leader is more about vision, about where he wanna go. Like Jobs, everyone under him thought he was an asshole. A lot of great leaders in human history were just pretty bad examples in terms of personal life. It is nice to have a high moral standard for political figures. But it is just difficult to be perfect. Obama, from my point view, is a nice man. But a failed president achieved nothing during his presidency.