Ming Pao News Agency
The popular video social application TIKTOK has recently become the new grinding of China -US wrestling. After the US government's senior management has been threatening to block TIKTOK in the United States for many days, the American technology giant Microsoft (MSFT) is with Tiktok's parent company, Beijing's wordsJumping and discussing the acquisition of its US, Canada and New Australia.U.S. President Trump agreed to give the two sides for 45 days to discuss the sales conditions and propose that once the Tiktok is successfully transferred, the US government should receive part of the remuneration from the transaction.This TIKTOK storm reflects the Trump administration to combat Chinese technology and Internet giants.Even the deeper political purposes of Chinese scientific and technological progress comprehensively.
Fast development swept the world
Three -south face of the US government and business world
The byte beating was launched in September 2016. In 2017, the Overseas Tiktok of Douyin was launched, and acquired Musical.ly, a US music video social platform headquartered in Shanghai.Douyin and Tiktok are widely welcomed by the younger generation, and the number of users has increased rapidly.Data from May this year show that Douyin and TIKTOK have downloaded more than 2 billion times around the world, and the market share has pose a threat to social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
TIKTOK was involved in China -US wrestling since the second half of last year. In October, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg bombed Tiktok to delete the content involving protests. In NovemberLast month, senior US officials released the wind, saying that Tiktok threatened Guoan and would ban it.So far, the U.S. government has not proposed any evidence of TIKTOK threatening Guoan. The original sin was because the parent company was in Beijing and accused of transferring to the Chinese government for personal information.The most decent reason is that the byte beating in 2018 did not get CFIUS approval when the acquisition of Musical.ly in 2018.
Tiktok currently has about 100 million American active users. If it is blocked, or affects Trump ’s President’ s re -election, it is considered the best choice for the TIKTOK to acquire Tiktok.
If Microsoft successfully acquisitions Tiktok, it will also greatly improve its competitiveness in the consumer business field, so that Microsoft will obtain capital capital with social giants such as Facebook and SNAP.When negotiating with such a human knife, the ability to bump bargaining has been greatly reduced. If Microsoft can buy its US -Canada Australia, it is really a hot frying pile.No wonder Trump, who was born in a businessman, said that no matter which American company bought Tiktok, he should pay a reward to the Ministry of Finance.
Today, the US political and business circles have exposed three faces in the Tiktok incident: one is that the White House internal eagle section uses Guoan as an excuse to settle it; second, social media competitors continue to smearTake Tiktok; the third is the Silicon Valley of Wall Street taking advantage of the fire, and wants to eat this long -awaited fat pork.
This is another hunting of the US economic hegemony, and it is also a traditional drama for the United States' political and business community to divide the fertilizer.There have been similar encounters in Germany, France, Japan and other countries in the past.However, from the recent development of the situation, this time byte beating may not only be as simple as cutting meat.The White House trade consultant Navarro recently hinted that Microsoft may not be a suitable buyer for Tiktok, suggesting that Microsoft must withdraw money from China if he wants to acquire Tiktok.Yesterday, Zhang Yiming, the founder of byte beating, also pointed out in the internal letter that most people made the focus of the incident problem wrong.The company hellip; hellip; its real purpose is to want a comprehensive ban and more.
Strong buying and strong selling is not the purpose
Decoming and deducting the side stations
From the United States to oppose Microsoft's negotiation Tiktok, and then said that they need to collect commissions, and then never allowed byte beating to retain any equity of Tiktok.The Chinese -funded company in the field of technology and Internet technology surpassed the United States and went to the top of the world to suffocate and choked, at the same time, forcing countries around the world to choose border stations to block.As soon as the U.S. suppressing Tiktok's precedent, Australia has followed up, and there will be other countries imitated.Even if Tiktok is left, the byte beating will be rushed back to China, and it will be difficult to become an international company.
The United States has not abandoned decoupled with China, and any country or enterprise has eventually been forced to choose between China and the United States.At the same time, the core value of TIKTOK is the unique algorithm of Douyin. This artificial intelligence is the wisdom of Chinese engineers and programmers. It is a high -value intellectual property right.The suspect of mandatory technology transfer also opened a precedent for the United States to plunder China's intellectual property rights.
Due to the needs of opening up and counter -decoupling in the United States, the Chinese government has more welcome protection and protection in China, and it is difficult for the United States to respond to Huawei and Tiktok's suppression policies.The protection of overseas interests also feels unprepared.For the top Chinese companies such as Huawei and TIKTOK, while moving towards the world, they can only take a good risk assessment, live in peace, and make good windproof measures. When encountering unreasonable suppression abroadAfter weighing the advantages and disadvantages, they made arrangements for investors, shareholders, and corporate assets, and should not be deducted on a hat for traitors and surrender.
