For me, it’s the same as sanctions. Russia now controls its own economy taking over all the western brands for free and keeping the income and the profit. China banned from AI chips, creates world beating AI without them and now the US banned from western controlled TikTok starts using Chinese controlled rednote.

The moral, don’t try to exercise the power you thought you had, because that power was an illusion.

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It's like one of those water balloon tubes toroses that if you try to hold onto it tightly it slips out.

Power, especially soft power, oftentimes resides wherever you believe it resides.

Watching “powerful” people find out they are not makes for good entertainment.