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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by BugsJustFindMe on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:41AM (#42739969)
Yes, thank you. I've updated the earlier sentence from "foreign control" to "control by a foreign adversary". It's indeed the fact that China is a geopolitical enemy-to-be that's the problem.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by ryandrake on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:57AM (#42740245)
But, they're also something like our third biggest trading partner. China is like a Schroedinger's Adversary: Simultaneously an adversary and a friend, until you ask a politician and the wave function collapses and he picks one.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by JumpCrisscross on Friday January 17, 2025 @12:08PM (#42740474)
> Simultaneously an adversary and a friend, until you ask a politician and the wave function collapses and he picks one

Which politician argues China is a friend?

We bought Soviet oil in the 1970s [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_trade_of_the_Soviet_...

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