One year ago today, I made an appearance on the Piers Morgan show to debate Tobias Ellwood, a member of the UK Parliament about the future of TikTok, the Chinese app that literally changed the entire world of social media. The success of TikTok is a testament to the vision of Zhang Yi Ming, the Chinese entrepreneur who first thought about the social media platform some 12 years ago while sitting with his friends in a two bedroom apartment in Beijing.
Ellwood is definitely confusing China with the USA. "China is not abiding by our [i.e. the USA's] international rules and norms"? It is mostly abiding to int'l law (!), which it is the USA who's not abiding by almost all of the time. Who cares about that "rules based order" undermining int'l law where the USA makes the rules and orders everyone around? And how inappropriate for a person from the UK to criticize a country "to arrest people who they say say something against the state" when it's the UK itself that's illegally imprisoning a foreign journalist before the eyes of the world for the "crime" of journalism.
While I definitely believe, "it's all about the money", the SC video itself doesn't show this so clearly to me. They really disguise it as a national security issue with their "[US] American adversary" notion. Which is only a way to illegitimately criminalize your int'l competitor. But how is it not a "ban", if Unitedstatian users (obviously, by "Americans", he doesn't refer to e.g. Chilenos) are supposed to only THEN "enjoy" TikTok, AFTER it's sold?
What I really find revealing is how the speaker just mentions a possible Rep. or Dem., not e.g. a Socialdemocratic, future administration, marking the USA practically just as much as a 2-party democracy/autocracy as the GDR was a 1-party democracy/autocracy. Not to confuse USA and GDR: the USA definitely did more war, genocide, slavery, spying on, political imprisoning of and murdering of their own citizens. Those poor Euro-Americans, Africans and Americans fighting for their and the freedom of us all (just think of Chelsea Manning or Julian Assange [EDIT: J.A. isn't from Am.]). What they do e.g. with their African socialistic, constitutionally protected competitor parties we can see here: "Florida Uhuru leader defends Russia, bashes Colonial powers after FBI press conference" <https://youtu.be/wJj9typ7SbA>. OMG, she's so good! ✊🏿
China's soft power has escalated to the 3rd position 🌎 worldwide.
China will continue to rise despite sabotage from the USA.
As always, you’re Great, Cyrus.
Ellwood is definitely confusing China with the USA. "China is not abiding by our [i.e. the USA's] international rules and norms"? It is mostly abiding to int'l law (!), which it is the USA who's not abiding by almost all of the time. Who cares about that "rules based order" undermining int'l law where the USA makes the rules and orders everyone around? And how inappropriate for a person from the UK to criticize a country "to arrest people who they say say something against the state" when it's the UK itself that's illegally imprisoning a foreign journalist before the eyes of the world for the "crime" of journalism.
While I definitely believe, "it's all about the money", the SC video itself doesn't show this so clearly to me. They really disguise it as a national security issue with their "[US] American adversary" notion. Which is only a way to illegitimately criminalize your int'l competitor. But how is it not a "ban", if Unitedstatian users (obviously, by "Americans", he doesn't refer to e.g. Chilenos) are supposed to only THEN "enjoy" TikTok, AFTER it's sold?
What I really find revealing is how the speaker just mentions a possible Rep. or Dem., not e.g. a Socialdemocratic, future administration, marking the USA practically just as much as a 2-party democracy/autocracy as the GDR was a 1-party democracy/autocracy. Not to confuse USA and GDR: the USA definitely did more war, genocide, slavery, spying on, political imprisoning of and murdering of their own citizens. Those poor Euro-Americans, Africans and Americans fighting for their and the freedom of us all (just think of Chelsea Manning or Julian Assange [EDIT: J.A. isn't from Am.]). What they do e.g. with their African socialistic, constitutionally protected competitor parties we can see here: "Florida Uhuru leader defends Russia, bashes Colonial powers after FBI press conference" <https://youtu.be/wJj9typ7SbA>. OMG, she's so good! ✊🏿
Sadly, the debate might as well have occurred today. Mr. Ellwood was like a Robot powered by a tape recorder, rather than by an AI...
He did not appear to understand the concept of totalitarianism and how it applies to Britain.
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Bingo! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/14/steven-mnuchin-tik-tok-ban/