A clever play? Do Americans know a world outside of the US market exist? What hell of a message is this? A publicly traded company buying the domestic operations of a foreign company, just because the government deems it a National security risk, with no proof whatsoever? The same government who has spied citizen and high officials of ALLIED countries for years? Is all this completely lost on all of corporate America? This is pure international trade insanity. We’re discussing Microsoft buying TikTok as if it were just another valid course of action, while it’s the most Soviet-Russia style thing that has ever happened in International tech trade in decades. You want another one? Taiwan’s TSMC and all the shenanigans going on about their Arizona fab plant. Pure. insanity.

If you don’t get it, pause for a moment, and think what would happen if China would suggest that Huawei should buy a successful Western service operating in China to avoid a national security risk.

Pompeo is right when he says that this is like another Cold War, but with just one big difference: it’s America that’s playing the role of Russia now.