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TikTok is not a social media company, it’s a weapon of foreign influence and a key part of China’s economic war against us.
Lest there be any doubt.
Chinese manufacturers are flooding TikTok and other social media apps with direct appeals to American shoppers, urging people to buy luxury items straight from their factories. And amid the threats of sky-high tariffs on Chinese exports, Americans seem to be all in.
American influencers have embraced the videos, promoting the factories and driving downloads of Chinese shopping apps like DHGate and Taobao as a way for shoppers to save money if the price of goods skyrockets under President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports. DHGate was among the 10 most downloaded apps in Apple’s and Google’s app stores last week.
Many of the posts also seem to have elicited Americans’ sympathy for China in comments, such as “Trump bullied the wrong country” and “China won this war.”
Assume that none of this is organic or authentic, but it is a test of TikTok as an engine of economic warfare.
And as such it’s working quite well.
Before TikTok, Chinese sellers had to spend fortunes targeting Americans through Facebook, YouTube, Amazon and other American platforms. Now they can directly target Americans through TikTok and push them to download Chinese shopping apps while entirely cutting out any American component except for the delivery truck drivers.
Allowing TikTok to operate is economic suicide no matter how many lobbyists have been paid off to push China’s agenda while pretending that it’s good for America.
Interesting, good info, thanks !!!!!
China is desperate, and desperately trying not to show it, as evidenced by the fact they came crawling into Treasury to negotiate, while denying any negotiations, and then quietly exempting a bunch of American goods from tariffs over the weekend. I know some women that buy a bunch of useless crap off TikTok but I’m not sure it’s enough to offset mass shipments in a meaningful way.
Yeah, that was my impression also.
Thank you Republican president Richard M. Nixon for opening America’s door to the CCP mafia. You don’t trade with thieves and gangsters in the first place. You don’t trade with your mortal enemy unless you’re a suicidal altruist.
“It is immoral for the U.S. (and for all free or semi-free countries) to engage in any undertaking with [Communist China] as a partner. It is particularly immoral if the undertaking is intellectual or cultural. Such a partnership necessarily implies and proclaims the acceptance of [Communist China] as a peaceful, well-meaning, civilized country.” – Ayn Rand
“Without the ability to trade with America, China collapses. America can fend for itself without a totalitarian Communist regime that treats its citizens like slaves. Shame on America for ever doing business with Communist China’s regime in the first place. Let China become a free market, and let America become MORE of a free market, without the regulations, taxes and welfare state. THEN free trade will triumph. But only then. Unless you have free countries, THERE IS NO FREE TRADE.” – Michael J. Hurd
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