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Topic
Board Economics
Re: Donald Trump signs executive orders banning TikTok and WeChat
by
The Pharmacist
on 17/08/2020, 19:15:57 UTC
This guy doesn't care about Russia interfering with election since it is endorsing his re election, he doesn't care about the other US based companies and social media spying on everyone and the risk of being leaked to China.
Of course not; nor do I think Trump really cares about the privacy effects of these two apps.  There's probably a lot more going on behind the scenes as far as motivation goes that the public isn't aware of, and I don't take any statements by Trump at face value.

The US isn't at war with China, though the relations between the two countries are strained to say the least.  My hope is that Trump won't get re-elected in November and that all the damage he's done can start to be undone by his replacement.  I wouldn't put money on it, though, as I never underestimate the stupidity of the American voters.

Trump is getting aggressive to China because they are being taken down by China in their economy that most of their products and manufacturers are now from China.
Nah, that's been the case for many years now.  Trump might not like it, but he certainly hasn't done anything constructive in terms of bringing jobs back into the US which are currently being done in China and other countries.  He's just a big bag of wind.