TikTok has chosen the third path. Is Trump finally going to compromise?

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A single spark can start a prairie fire.

Only a fool would believe that you could exchange fifteen cities for a piece of jade.

What is the most important thing in agricultural civilization? Land. With land, there is food, with food, there are soldiers, and with soldiers, the country can be unified.

No matter how mysterious the He Shi Bi is, it is just a piece of stone. In a war, it can at most kill someone.

Ying Zheng’s great-grandfather was not stupid. The Heshi Bi was just an excuse. He would beat you whether you gave it to him or not.

If you don't give it, it means you are hostile, and if you give it, it means you are afraid. Lin Xiangru saved the Heshi Bi and saved his face, but he failed to save Zhao. Two years after the Heshi Bi was returned to Zhao, the Qin army invaded Zhao and seized land, food and people.

Face is not important, strength is important.

Over the past week, TikTok's transaction rumors have been full of twists and turns.

First, Microsoft lost the opportunity, and Oracle was rumored to be the biggest winner. Walmart was eager to try, and for a moment it didn't know who to follow in order to get a piece of the pie.

In order to become the new social giant, companies are competing fiercely for trading opportunities with TikTok.

Trump issued the executive order on August 6, and September 20 is the deadline for TikTok to complete the transaction. As the deadline approaches, Wall Street traders are eagerly waiting, and Oracle's market value has been rising, waiting for further upward breakthrough.

Finally, the fog was lifted. The discussion between TikTok and Oracle was not about the acquisition, but about the cooperation terms of data security. According to the report of CNBC, an authoritative American media, the Trump administration is about to approve this cooperation. On the issue of TikTok, Trump is finally going to compromise.

Trump's compromise was definitely not voluntary.

Seeing that the social software created by Chinese people is very popular among young people in the United States, and TikTok's download volume ranked first in the world in August, the post-00s generation in the United States interfered with Trump's campaign on it, which greatly affected the cause of "Make America Great Again". How could Trump let TikTok go easily?

But the excuses for shutting down TikTok are running out.

Trump has been suppressing TikTok under the guise of data security. Entrusting the data security of American users to Oracle is equivalent to shutting Trump's mouth.

Here we have to mention the background of Oracle. The reason why Oracle is called Oracle is because it is the project code named by its first customer, the CIA. Later, founder Larry Ellison named the company after the code. Later, Oracle also completed cooperation contracts with the CIA, the Naval Intelligence Agency, the Air Force Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. It is worth mentioning that Larry Ellison has always had a good personal relationship with Trump. At the beginning of this year, he held a fundraising event for Trump at his home and helped Trump raise 7 million US dollars.

In the United States, many private companies started out by serving the military, and then began to provide services to the public after their technology matured. For example, Boeing started out by building bombers for the U.S. military during World War II, and later began to build civilian aircraft. Oracle also started out by serving the military, and then began to provide database technology and cloud system services to ordinary companies.

Handing over the data to Oracle for hosting has stopped Trump from picking on TikTok's data security issues.

Before judging right or wrong, we must all understand a common background. After the Snowden incident, the data security of a country's citizens has become the primary issue that Internet companies around the world must address.

Not to mention TikTok in the United States, the same is true for several major American Internet companies FAANG in China and Europe.

The cooperation model between TikTok and Oracle is actually a replica of the American Cloud Guizhou. The American cloud service is now provided by a Chinese company, which is Cloud Guizhou.

The Cybersecurity Law of the People’s Republic of China came into effect on June 1, 2017. The law stipulates that all data on Chinese citizens or regions related to broadly defined national security issues must be stored on servers within China, and cloud service operators must be local companies.

In January 2018, Apple users in China received a notice that the iCould cloud service would be transferred to Yunshang Guizhou for operation.

Yunshang Guizhou has a 100% state-owned enterprise background, and the cloud data of all Chinese Apple users is now stored in a computer room building in Guizhou.

In Europe, after Snowden exposed the Prism Gate in 2013, Microsoft also achieved data compliance by hosting data with Deutsche Telekom.

In this context, TikTok's data has always been stored locally in the United States, and backups are only stored in the relatively independent Singapore.

It seems that TikTok has only been facing official scrutiny from the United States for the past two months, but in fact, the whole thing has lasted for nearly a year.

Last November, the U.S. federal government formally instructed the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to conduct a national security review of TikTok in the United States, investigating ByteDance's acquisition of Chinese short video startup Musical.ly in 2017.

To further comply with regulations, TikTok has isolated codes for Chinese engineers and achieved "localization" in terms of brand, personnel structure, business operations, etc., and hired former executives from Disney and Youtube to manage the company.

After Trump escalated the TikTok incident, the CIA, the leader of the global intelligence community, was asked to assess TikTok's "national security issues." The conclusion was that there was no evidence at all that China obtained data through TikTok.

This is a very important turning point in the whole matter. The CIA has the world's most advanced intelligence technology. Before Pompeo became the US Secretary of State, he was the director of the CIA. Once TikTok has any data leak, even if it is a suspicion, it will not pass the CIA.

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Immediately afterwards, the revised version of the "Export Control Product List" newly released by China's Ministry of Commerce also provided confidence for the game between TikTok and Trump. One of the "personalized push technology based on data analysis" happened to be the personalized video push technology in TikTok.

In an interview on September 1, Trump said that based on the September 20 deadline, he further required an agreement to be reached before September 15, "otherwise we will shut down TikTok (business) after that."

After the export control list is updated, TikTok can just say that if you want to acquire it, you can go talk to the Ministry of Commerce of China.

Finally, if this cooperation is finally approved, TikTok's headquarters will remain in the United States, and its development prospects of continuing to create 20,000 jobs in the United States will not change.

If Trump opposes, it will have a negative impact on the US employment rate, and young Americans who are eager to find jobs will be the first to disagree.

There is a saying that goes, "Those who are not of my kind must have different hearts." It is always uncomfortable to see foreign apps become so popular, especially when there are mercantilism like the blond old man Trump, who gives priority to American companies in everything and stares at you with a magnifying glass all the time.

Once they catch you by the hair, they will expel you from the American market.

Is the US market important? It is very important. The world's most advanced chip technology is in the US, as are the best technology and innovative talent. Only by staying in the most advanced market can our companies compete with them, and only by competing can we learn.

Whether we admit it or not, the current global market is still an American order. People still use US dollars to do business abroad. Many seemingly innovative Internet companies are just "copycats" of large American companies in China. Just like when Zhao State faced the powerful Qin State, the Heshi Bi was not important, but avoiding continued weakness was the most important thing.

If you don't want to follow them and repeat what they say, you must learn to understand them and run with them.

In the case of deteriorating relations, we must learn a tenacious survival strategy, cooperate in competition, and survive in the game. Now, China has gradually caught up with the United States in Internet technology, and even has the strength to compete with it. While further developing and growing, it is also very important to guard against challenges from the United States.

As long as you are alive, there is hope. As long as you stand firm, you will have a chance to succeed.