Everytime a Chinese product beats a US product in technology or in sales volume, the US would say it's a national security concern or a threat to the US. Lol

Thank you, ByteDance don’t be forced to sell to any entity. Let the United States ban it. Followers can still access the app using a VPN.

Trying to force sale a trillion dollar company for few hundred billion, even the US investors disagreed.

Anything anti China is so easy to sell in current USA.

Fear is the only reason the U.S. wanted to contain China. When tariffs failed, technology sanctions followed. When both tariffs and sanctions failed, de-coupling became the buzzword. And when de-coupling was found to hurt the U.S. economy more than China's, it was changed to de-risking which in effect means a "slow de-coupling" until a more appropriate time. Twenty years ago, American muscle cars and reliable Japanese cars plus reputable German, French and Swedish cars and even newbies from South Korea were selling like hot cakes in the Chinese market and each and every maker made a fortune in China. Nowadays, however, the U.S. has no hope of selling anything to China -- not only industrial products but also agricultural produce which are easily replaced by many other countries around the globe. Now, America wants to ban Chinese EV's on the ground of the, again, "national security" scapegoat when in fact they fear for the future of all American automakers. Fear has also invaded European minds and the Europeans want to adopt the American low-life tactics. Sooner or later, the world will be divided into 2 camps: one that embraces worldwide integration and the other a closed economy that fears competition. The acceleration of the de-dollarization movement will speed up the divide even further, to the point that it may break the world monetary system in half. With the embargoes of high-tech equipment and the bans of all things Chinese from the U.S. market, it is clear the U.S. has lost all confidence in competing with China's technological advancements. And when the U.S. can only rely on the sole excuse of "national security" risk to try to restrict the rise of all Chinese marvels the likes of social media app, electric vehicles, new energy vehicles, battery technology and battery management software, advanced chip manufacturing, quantum computing, space exploration and AI robotics, etc., it is plain the U.S. has surrendered to China. The decline of the empire will accelerate along with the unstoppable de-dollarization effort mandated by an expanding BRICS. The destruction of the international supply chain by the U.S. forced China and many other countries to develop their own industrial base and the U.S. only has itself to blame for its own demise. Perhaps the coming "collapse of China" can somehow soothe the overwhelming anxiety of the West?

Let me put it this way.... Bytedance's tiktok/douyin revenue globally in 2023 is 120 billion dollars and about 16 billion dollars come from the US market... That means the US market only accounts for 13% of the entire revenue of tiktok.... why would Bytedance / China sell off tiktok if most of their money comes outside of America????? huh?????

does it sound like tyranny if someone can force u to sell ur asset through law arrangement while u are not doing anything wrong?

Well, in the name of national security, microsoft, apple, oracle, general motor, ford, Adobe. walmart etc should sell their Chinese businesses to Chinese, 1 dollar / firm

KFC has 10000 outlet stores in China. China can ask KFC to sell it's secret recipe and divest to Chinese firms or it will be ban. So both can play the same games.😅😂❤

Daylight robbery

US: what is yours, it is mine. This is highway robbery.

US government is being a sore loser

Hypocrisy & Greed of US at its highest. Sooner or later it's gonna bite back.

Don't give in to robbers

They do the same thing even to their allies. Remember Alstom (french power and transportation company) which was forced by the US govt to sell the bulk of their assets to GE.

Honestly folks if TikTok gets banned in the US just use a VPN to get access to it.

lesson for foreign investors - be careful, if you challenge the u.s. companies, they will change the rules against you

If i have a Chinese wife and my neighbors see her, they will be like “national security threat”.

Why is she keep on interrupting him?

A ban on tiktok i think is unlikely to happen because the allegations against them cannot be proven in a court of law

if America wants respect from the world, what u need is better regulations not wild accusations.

the same intelligence briefings and people that found the WMD in IRAQ amirite?

TikTok in the US is as much security risk as IPhones or Tesla cars in China. It is unlikely that Bytedance would sell TikTok. US government can shut down the company within its borders. It can relocate its servers to another country and US users would continue to be able to use the app. It’s such a popular platform with an enormous number of loyal users that they would use it even if it means going through a VPN. US government would be better off allowing TikTok to operate in the US so that regulators can monitor and restrict its collection of user data.

Interligence briefings will talk about how Hollywood influence is weakened by tiktok.

Lets put it this way, the US advocates for free trade (whether they walk their talk or not is another matter). If tiktok stand firm and forced to shut down, it publicly admit to their protectionism in trade. The whole world will have a reason to move away from the USD system and build a multipolar world undermining the influence of USD which is one of the pillar of strength that support the US hegemony for decades. Strategically spending billions on the Chinese side to erode the US hegemony bit by bit worth the money. Lets not forget companies that earn big revenue in China in which they can retaliate, Tesla, Apple, Dell, HP, Cadillac, Buick and most importantly BOEING with legitimate safety concern.

FYI Blackrock, General Alantic and Susquehanna International Group, all American companies, combined own nearly 60% of Bytedance.

I'd be more curious about who in Congress would stand to benefit financially from this policy. After a TT ban, Meta would certainly see a boost in value, and there are several members of Congress who own Meta stock.

No proof, not the slightest, of “national security” concern!

Wow, I’m loving these commentaries written by everyone. I want to see these on all the CNN, Reuters, mainstream media channels! This is real free speech not the mainstream censored ones

Will US allow Google sell to China?

For both sides of congress to pass a bill so fast while they can't even agree on anything a lot more serious, there's some serious money to be made by the politicians and their backers , like Menuchin 😮

Strategically it makes sense for TikTok to not sell and force the ban to happen. If you think about it, TikTok is not only popular in the U.S, its popular around the world. If TikTok sells to U.S they will lose the rest of the world, if they just hold their ground and make U.S ban them. They will only lose part of the U.S market (other techies can still find work arounds). If you account for the bad PR the U.S got all around the world, its clear this is not the best move. I think the problem is the people behind the ban didn't really have a good strategic thinker on their side. This is what happens when you only focus your talent selection to people "you like". This is very simple second order move, total strategic miscalculation. The smarter move should have been hiring and poaching the talent from TikTok and compete with a better product. All this crap about being a Chinese company is border line racist and ineffective. Which, coupled with western media's long standing tradition of humiliating Asian men, this will only turn Asian allies against the U.S on the most base human level. I think the memo every Asian men from the media is pretty clear. If you net everything this is was a bad move, they should have hired a good strategist.

The right thing to do is coming up a new law on social media and apply to all platforms like TikTok, Meta, Instagram, etc. Trying every means to hurt your main competitor in a race does not means you will eventually win that race!

Nobody will sell, Tik Tok will expand to a super big corporation in the future

Bytedance should sell its shares to the US gov't for 33 Trillion dollars.

After proposed TiTok bill, Mike Gallagher will retire from congress in April, no doubt landed some high pay job by his master.

Would you imagine the Chinese ban all the U S companies in their territories, like Wal Mart, Costco, McDonnald, Starbux, Nike, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla and many other U S companies ?

I'm baffled that this host is so naive as to think that "the Chinese will say they'd rather shut it down and burn it down than allow American politics to tell them that ......" What I can say is that if the US goes ahead with the bill, Bytedance will shut down 100% of its US operations, which as this investor said is a small part of Bytedance's business.

It is win-win for ByteDance shareholders. The entire BD has operating profit of $28bn in 2023 but recent market value was $230bn, so 8x OP, while the US ops is barely breakeven. If TT got sold for $50bn it is free money cos OP remain the same. If TT got banned it cleared an IPO hurdle BD value could jump 50% in an IPO.

national secutity issue , so you must sell the company to us 🤣🤣🤣 ..... it's clearly an easier way to make money than war

Lol she’s delusional 😂 as a non westerner 90% of the world lives outside it people are literally rolling on the ground laughing y’all are so funny read a history book especially like the last 100 years and ask the global south who they think is a “national security risk” 😂

As if Byte-dance want the US dollar!

Senate intelligence also affirmed Iraq had WMDs too.

China will follow the way to get the apple/Microsoft/oracle

As they said in the social network (paraphrasing): If you wanted TikTok you should've invented TikTok.

Every time I walk into a Panda Express I know it’s a security threat to me BLOWING UP the bathroom later that night but let’s not talk about that. LOL

Tiktok akan seperti Huawei !!! Amerika ecundang !! 😂😂

Even if it is banned in the United States, most countries in the world are still using it, so it’s not a big deal for TikTok.

Who uses FB these days?

I won't sell either

Holding hostage is our best business Strategy. It already works. Freedom of enterprise if you obey my rules.

I stand with T i k T o k and peace!🕊

Im buying stock of VPN companies

60% of the company (ByteDance) is western, 20% the 2 owners, 20% the employee's. The Company itself is somewhere in the Carribean, HQ in beijing. The company itself is infact not even chinese if you look at it. TikTok US is "controlled" and "audit" by Oracle and located in Oracle's datacentre

Than why not ban all these products that are made in china?

So be it. 🤷‍♂️

ha ... sell it for 300B gold bars ... see if America can come out with it ?

If i were him i’d say sure, we’ll sell. The asking price? $10 trillion dollars. Take it or leave it.

The interviewee is afraid to say what he thinks. That's all you need to know about what is going on in US. 😂😂

What I don't understand is why can't the US regulate Chinese tech companies the same way China does with US tech companies in China, such as Apple? Is the US that incompetent?

Oh No! I Chinese company is eating our lunch again! What a bunch of 🤡🤡🪓🪓🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🕵‍♀🕵‍♀🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 It's so transparent

What is tiktok ban????

Banning TikTok in US is a huge loss for many Americans, not only because many of them may, as a result, lost their jobs, money, but also they will lose a channel to let them know the real world, they will go back to a society whose media is tightly controlled by the government or interesting groups.

A thief, if being caught, of course will not confess that he or she is a thief XD

How do you buy bytedance? Hasn't IPO'ed yet

My Windows 11 is transmitting data even when it's hibernating, what can u possibly explain?

At one point apparently Iraq had WMD…we all know how honest the US government is…

Now i want tik tok more than EVER and they dont sensor what you say like Instagram

s/great investment advice

Ban Tik Tok now!

One thing people forgot is Bytedance has big presence in China as well as in other parts of the world. Fb/Meta has zero presence in China. If Meat is valued at 1.x trillions, Bytedance should be valued more.

"Мітчелл Грін: Ми не продамо навіть якщо TikTok буде заборонений" - це важливо зрозуміти, що інвестори вірять у цей продукт і готові йти на ризик.

Why tik tok is in this situation

Her prep of gotcha replies is pretty annoying. If you want to interview your guest, do that.

Good. Let US come up with their own version of TiokTok.....not robbing other's.

China is bad, but we are going to China to beg for more money. Yellen is there right now. 😂😂

Yeah losing a huge chunck of business is apparently not enough. I wish people could be charged with lying on a news network

At this point give the app back to the one who created the app

Let's see the evidence let the people decide

China -Usa asides, TikTok or Facebook, the karen's eyes are melting when talking to a billionaire investor 😊

This dude is weird lol

This guy looks so shady

80 trillion

He should start the Tiktok United Front (all 170 million American tiktok users) to demand that their Tiktok not be banned or 170 million votes will not go to the Dems.

He know the play & he playin back & his mental state is concrete enough penetration is impossible

I can predict years from now when everyone forgets about the app and the ban also moved on people will start making videos about this and say remember TikTok and the ban where everyone got upset about it and stuff

And Facebook is for old people

Green. Are you surprised?

Greed shows up, US buyer at 10% of valuation 😂. True, Tik Tat outcome.

Thou shall not covet thy neighbour's tiktok😂.

Feels sorry baned cs humanity gasa Glad not for sale . To hypocrite gov

A ban on tik Tok would devastate this country And put millions of Americans out of work. A ban on tik Tok won't happen this is just a political thing.

Ban it!

you fear China or US? the great guy? funny dude

If Uncle Sam wants lose lose, so be it let US market burn down.

Then it will be banned. xD

………

Yada yada yada. He’s a chump.

ok guess you can go ahead and tell your china overload to shut down tiktok then.

This is just a puppet show.