Your right. It could be both. I mean, my wife said to me the other day that she heard Trump was doing the tariffs to lower the bond interest rates. I said while in some types of recessions that’s true, that wouldn’t work in this case and you’d have to be an idiot to think it would. Sure enough the next day Trump puts a stay on tariffs to most of the world because the bond market got rocked. All I could think of is omg, are they really that fucking stupid?

I wish it was that. No, this is actual evil, not incompetence. Trump has turned the US economy into the largest pump and dump scheme ever. Worse, he’s bragging about how his friends made billions. I can’t even believe this is happening. I’m in utter shock. I knew Trump would be bad, but straight up flaunting corruption like it’s a joke and even bringing the SCOTUS on board with this. I’m just gob smacked.

You don’t understand. Chinese companies have been preparing for this for almost a decade now thanks to US policies. Here’s manufacturing locations just for Moto.

https://motosmartphones.com/where-are-motorola-phones-made/

How much is it really made in Brazil? Enough to by pass the tariffs.

This is transhipment. China has been building an enormous transhipment network with those countries heavily dependent on Chinese heavy machinery and services. They expected this, they prepared for this. It’s the US companies that tried to obey their own countries rules that are susceptible. Even Samsung has been working with China to create these networks. Soon, I would estimate, Apple will as well. The problem is, if you thought Tik Tok was a national security issue, forcing every US company to use Chinese logistics to fight your own countries tariffs…

No one knows. Here’s a video of Trump from a few days ago saying he’s willing to concede Taiwan.

https://youtu.be/Iv4N2uCZGhk

With that offer on the table, who knows how much China would be willing to pay Trump. Trump is just in it for himself. He just put a trillion dollar chip on the bargaining table.

How should I know? But you have Biden insisting he won’t enforce the law and Trump promising he’ll stop the ban and make sure tik tok stays. He’s even inviting their CEO to his inauguration. On the other hand it’s tik tok threatening to shutdown now if they don’t fix it sooner. It’s a strange turn of events but I have no idea why USA thinks begging is the appropriate move.

I mean seriously, if you want an answer ask the US government why all the important people like both presidents are begging. It’s not me making this decision.

Edit

Don’t take my word for it. Here’s an article by the rolling stones magazine on it and how all the important people are scrambling to save tik tok. No joke, I’d like someone to explain why all these important people care.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/biden-dems-tiktok-ban-1235239244/

The US won’t block it, but it will be blocked. Tik Tok itself said it will turn off it’s servers and block US ips like it did with India.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/tiktok-ban-supreme-court/index.html

So it will be tik tok itself enforcing the ban. Which is hilarious. USA showed all this bravado and now has to turn around and beg tik tok to return. I fully expect in the long run tik tok will be sold to Chinese agent Elon Musk and be turned into the spy apparatus US claims it to be. The whole situation shows what a clown USA is.

I’m not sure what your trying to say. Rednote was always censored. Are you talking about Tik Tok?

Here’s a whole list of videos on tik tok about tiananmen with multiple videos showing tankman.

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/tiananmensquare

And here’s niaomi’s tik tok

https://www.tiktok.com/@realsexycyborg

Oh and you probably should look soon. Because a government IS about to censor those posts on Tik Tok. The US government.

That’s the funny part. As they’re discovering with RedNote, Tik Tok wasn’t censored by China, that’s why they had 2, one for China and one for the world which would not follow the same censors. It actually was it’s own entity and did it’s own thing. That was a company decision because they thought it would make more money, and they were right.

Those will stay rumors. Thinking the CCP will wall off Americans shows a complete lack of understanding China. Since as the article noted, if you don’t follow the rules you’ll be banned, there’s no way the government will try to wall off anyone. Hell, China didn’t even want to ban Google. They asked Google to put in the rules that rednote has. Google refused, the firewall blocks Google until they abide by the rules. If Google ever just follows the rules like Microsoft, they’re more than welcome to come back. If there’s any segregation it will be because the server’s are overwhelmed.

*Edit. Btw that’s how bing and linkedin became huge in China until the Chinese found better Chinese alternatives. They never got banned, they got replaced.