Overheard on current US war on Tiktok. A thread:

Talks abt ban on Tiktok subsiding a bit because Tiktok in talks with General Atlantic and Sequoia to sell to a US shell company. US demanding that Tiktok technical staff be completely changed, AI algorithm be based in the US...
US want both TikTok staff and the algorithm to be verified by a US technical committee which includes the NSA. US threaten to put TikTok on entity list that would prevent it frm run on Android or OS phone if it doesn’t sell to a US company
The implication is that for any Chinese app with a lot of users abroad, US will now demand the code and the models or they will kill the app
Some Chinese tech leaders nows think China needs a tech Manhattan project to build its own IT stack from scratch. It will be hard but can be done if China really tries esp when forced to the wall by US
Some people are pretty sure US will sabotage any Chinese attempt to go it alone. Many in China believed US intelligence agencies behind 2015 XcodeGhost malware attacks on China to test whether they could screw w China’s software “supply chain” also a warning to Chinese
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