Did TikTok resist?

How can a private enterprise confront the power of another country? This is not a frequent proposition in human business history, but it is a proposition that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance must face now.
It is no doubt that this "TikTok US Business Acquisition" directly controlled by the White House and lobbied by Facebook behind the scenes is a extortion of Chinese technology companies and Chinese technological innovation assets by American political and some business elites - the politicians in the White House do not even want to hide this.
On August 3, 2020, President Trump of the United States once again made a startling statement on the acquisition negotiation between Microsoft and TikTok: he said that he "released" the Microsoft acquisition plan, but directly requested that "there should be a considerable amount of money" directly enter the federal government's treasury.
He was even dissatisfied that Microsoft had not bought all of TikTok's global businesses.
The president of a country wants to ban a short video social software, triggering a "forced buying" transaction that should not have happened, and then the process of the transaction was manipulated by the president's unrestricted personal will, even the federal government jumped out to seek profits - which in any sense has nothing to do with the so-called "free market economy".
One country suppresses one enterprise and one enterprise enemies one country.
This is an unequal war and an unequal resistance.
How should TikTok conduct unequal resistance? Resistance is not a battle, not a fight, but a long process, a long-term game process that consumes resources, endurance and mind.
Being forced to accept an offer for acquisition does not mean no resistance;
Direct prosecution of the US Federal Government and the Foreign Investment Commission does not mean real resistance.
As a global technology enterprise in China, ByteDance and TikTok resist the political power of the United States for survival and development, rather than burning stones together;
It is to extend the global reach of China's scientific and technological innovation, rather than retreat and close.
Those who hope that TikTok would rather be broken in the United States, or advocate ByteDance to completely abandon the global market and focus on China's local "resistance" strategy, run counter to business common sense and business ethics, and even run counter to the strategic mission entrusted to China in this era of promoting "going global" competitiveness through scientific and technological innovation.
Looking at ByteDance and TikTok's resistance from the perspective of survival and development, we will understand that some things may have to be lost at present, and some things cannot be lost in any case.
It is a strategy of resistance and struggle to lose something temporarily, keep what cannot be lost, and exchange it for the possibility of regaining lost things in the future.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the U.S.
Foreign Investment Risk Assessment Modernization Act, which exists as a "black box evil law", will make ByteDance and TikTok lose something at present and at present.
As Zhang Yiming, the founder and CEO of ByteDance, said in his open letter on August 3, we must face the decision of CFIUS (the United States Foreign Investment Commission) and the executive order of the President of the United States, no matter from the perspective of users, teams and companies.
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