US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by keiferski on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:01AM (#24078109)

This was the predominant geopolitical theory with regards to China for most of the past ~40 years.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by rtx on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:35AM (#24078354)

I think they always knew this was not going to happen. But how do sell trading with a communist nation after 50 years of Red scare.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by secondcoming on Friday August 07, 2020 @03:27AM (#24079277)

There's nothing communist about the CCP any more

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by FooBarWidget on Friday August 07, 2020 @04:41AM (#24079747)

Kishore Mahbubani very aptly describes the CCP as the Chinese Civilization Party. That is a much more accurate name.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by Ericson2314 on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:32AM (#24081592)

Your average American voter doesn't know what communism is or whether China is or isn't it.

The might have some notion of "big bad central state", and China was and remains that.

In any event, some rhetoric to grease the wheels politically absolutely was in order.

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