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The hotel prices in Tokyo are higher than I have ever seen them.

Perhaps they got the idea that once the West finishes off Russia, they are next on the list.

Appears to be priced around 12.000 USD. Scary. And it has phased array radars.

What is the US alternative? Who is lobbying for this?

Yes. They make it sound much nicer.

I don't think it is possible or economically viable for ByteDance to sell TikTok under the terms set out, even if they wanted. Because of the shared code base with Douyin and the bill's requirements on severing ties between the two.

The likely outcome is that TikTok will stop operating in the US and continue in Europe and other places plus Douyin will continue in China.

The US has an official list of enemies and that includes China. I believe the list was introduced under Trump and is determined by the sitting president:

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-A/part-7/subp...

This is the idea of the "clean network" originally brought forward by Trump.

Basically all tech is clean and ok if comes from the good guys (the US and allies) and unclean if it comes from the bad guys (China, Russia ...).

IMHO a sad state of affairs. We would be at a healthier and less hypocritical place if our tech was secure by design, and suppliers and platforms were subject to open objective criteria and rule of law wrt. censorship and surveillance.

I would guess without being a lawyer that the specific mention of ByteDance/TikTok is what is easiest to challenge in court.

I don’t think they can sell it without the Chinese part. Which they probably cannot sell. So basically it is a ban.

So selling ByteDance wouldn’t work?

Microsoft runs outlook, bing, and until recently LinkedIn in China.

For example the list of “foreign adversaries” is under the sitting president’s discretion.

That seems to be the case - big win for the lobbyist of meta and Google.

Doesn’t the text of this law leave it to the president’s discretion?

Assuming Biden signs this this week - would Trump be able to undo it assuming he wins? Essentially making this an election subject.

As it is now ByteDance is owned by 60% mostly US investors and 40% by mostly Chinese founder and employees.

Would it be ok with this law if they brought down the 40% to 20% by an IPO in Singapore or the UK?

Facebook and YouTube. Wouldn’t this be against US monopoly regulations?

Who in the US could realistically buy it? And how could ByteDance sell TikTok without selling its Chinese counterpart Douyin (that it shares its codebase with)?

So far it is contained to China - about 20% of their total revenue.

“For the second quarter, the possibility of new colour options combined with aggressive sales initiatives could bring the brand back into positive territory.”

I am not sure that is going to cut it for Apple.

I think you are mixing the terms fairness and justice with what goes on in a political / legislative process. This is mostly a battle between the interests of Meta and Google vs. ByteDance.

The ones I listed.

I think the traditional standalone accounting software will be a thing of the past here after the implementation of the new accounting law.

Also cloud based accounting systems are probably easier to make money on.

It is not an explicit requirement - the new legislation just lists a number of things that are kinda hard to do without being online.

As far as I can tell that is the way things are going. A number of countries, eg Denmark, is implementing legislation that basically requires this - by requiring backup, standard accounting model for compliance check, electronic invoices, online vat etc.

Do you know any other country that does this?