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TikTok Diplomacy: A Digital Containment Doctrine Qiao Collective Audio
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Donald Trump is adding State Department coercion to his “art of the deal” toolkit. After months of feigned concern that the viral TikTok app represents a “trojan horse” for the Communist Party of China to access U.S. consumer data, the Trump Administration issued the Chinese company an ultimatum: sell the app to a U.S. buyer, or be shut down.
The Trump Administration’s forced sale of TikTok is merely the latest in a longstanding agenda to thwart China’s modernization. Under the digital containment doctrine, the world’s supposed enforcer of free trade and fair competition has revealed itself as a belligerent gatekeeper, foreclosing China’s market access wherever and however it can.
Read the full article: https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/articles/tiktok-digital-containment
Music: Seeing You Again by Ketsa is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License available at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Seeing_You_Again
Donald Trump is adding State Department coercion to his “art of the deal” toolkit. After months of feigned concern that the viral TikTok app represents a “trojan horse” for the Communist Party of China to access U.S. consumer data, the Trump Administration issued the Chinese company an ultimatum: sell the app to a U.S. buyer, or be shut down.
The Trump Administration’s forced sale of TikTok is merely the latest in a longstanding agenda to thwart China’s modernization. Under the digital containment doctrine, the world’s supposed enforcer of free trade and fair competition has revealed itself as a belligerent gatekeeper, foreclosing China’s market access wherever and however it can.
Read the full article: https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/articles/tiktok-digital-containment
Music: Seeing You Again by Ketsa is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License available at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Seeing_You_Again
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