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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by kinnth on Friday August 07, 2020 @06:43AM (#24080462)
China didn't ban them, they just asked them to play by Chinese Rules. I think it should be the same. Instead of Banning the US should setup what US rules they expect international companies to play by, as should the EU etc.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by tatrajim on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:57PM (#24084064)
Incorrect in the case of Apple. The government first approved their iBooks Store and iTunes Movies, then six month later, in 2016, shut them down, in what the NYT called a "startling about face". Apparently the Chinese authorities could not abide by the possibility of a foreign company purveying books and movies in China. There is nothing straightforward about "playing by Chinese rules".

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/technology/apple-no-longe...

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by ethbro on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:51AM (#24080896)
Nobody in the US has an appetite for forcing TikTok into a 49% joint venture and mandating key escrow.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by sukilot on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:52AM (#24081775)
US rules could be "key escrows are banned".
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by khuey on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:59AM (#24082558)
If you read the executive orders it's clear that "don't be controlled by or an instrument of the Chinese Communist Party" is the rule they're going for.

And if that standard just happens to be impossible for any Chinese company to meet ...

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