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Comment by throwawayq3423

12 hours ago

He has a major donor that owns part of TikTok. He'll save it for corrupt reasons, ignore the real concerns about it, then move on.

> He has a major donor that owns part of TikTok

He has a major donor who owns part of Bytedance. They’re not losing their investment with this ban.

  • 1. Then why is that investor so aggressively against the forced divestment? (not a ban)

    2. Bytedance will certainly lose value if its main product loses one of its main markets.

  • He also has a major donor who owns Meta, and a major donor who owns Twitter/X.

    He also has a daughter who is the only American to hold patents in China without having to license IP to a Chinese company.

    We are about to see some strange mental gymnastics out of 1600 Penn.

    • Anyone with significant financial interests in China should not be able to represent the US in confronting China.

      And yet..