On: Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

[BurningFrog]

China's motivation, as a geopolitical adversary to the US, is to tilt the geopolitical power balance in its favor.

Our local billionaires goals are not in the same category.

[filleduchaos → BurningFrog]

It's extremely telling that so many Americans in this thread are comfortably talking about "our local" companies and adversaries to the US, when the article is about a ban in...Canada.

[shiroiushi → filleduchaos]

The US and Canada are two of the closest allies in the world, and have been for a very long time. To many Americans, Canadians are also part of "us", at least when discussing global issues or adversaries.