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A comment on TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs. Parent comment

Re:TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs by gruez on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:17AM (#24038033)
>Banning TikTok might be the start of a larger set of sanctions against China, but that would have massive economic implications for the US

Have you missed all of this year and last year? The trade war ship has long sailed

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Re:TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs by kerkeslager on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:02AM (#24038539)
Tariffs are pretty different from bans.

Compare to the 1979, 1984, 1995, and 1996 sanctions against Iran, each of which banned investment and trade with Iran in entire economic sectors. Such bans would be politically impossible for the US to direct toward china, since we are dependent on China for certain products--we literally don't have the production capacity to meet our own needs.

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