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Originally Posted by Edward64
The below Politico article is kinda weird. If Tiktok was not owned/controlled by the Chinese government, why would the Chinese diplomats come out and try stop this legislation?
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Enjoy your Tiktok while you can. I predict it's going down.
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A direct effort by Chinese diplomats to lobby Hill staffers, reported by POLITICO, instead only hardened the sense of Washington China hawks that the app was a dangerous proxy for Beijing.
With the House of Representatives set to pass the TikTok bill as part of a major aid package over the weekend, the ball would be in the Senate’s court, where friction already seems much lower than it was in March, when the TikTok bill first moved through the House.
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TikTok’s poorly calculated lobbying in D.C. appears to have only emboldened lawmakers who continue to rush through the legislation, and Cantwell’s recent sign onto the latest TikTok bill clears a key hurdle to Senate movement.
In the Senate, the updated House TikTok bill also got support from key Commerce and Intelligence Committee Republicans involved in the TikTok negotiations.
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