2025-09-26
23 分钟The economist.
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And I'm Jason Palmer.
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First up, though, It started out as what seemed like a pitched battle for the digital soul of America.
Could Tik Tok, a wildly popular app with Chinese owners, be allowed to operate in the country?
The Biden administration said no. The Trump administration repeatedly said not sure yet.
Then yesterday, with little pomp, I spoke with President Chi.
I had a good talk, I told him what we were doing, and he said, uh, go ahead with it.
It is an executive order that in America puts control of the app in non-Chinese hands.
But which hands?
We don't know all the details yet,
but it looks as if the key investors here are going to be American allies of the president,