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>But every major US tech company is banned or blocked from competing in China, isn’t it?

Nope, Microsoft operates in China, so does IBM, Uber did before the Chinese branch was acquired by Didi (they weren't banned, just outcompeted).

China is funnily enough even facebook's second largest market by revenue (about 5 billion) from Chinese advertisers.

Google probably could operate in China and I guess doesn't because it fears American backlash.

Doing business in China is arguably more complicated for American tech firms than the other way around, but American companies are most definitely not blanked banned or anything.




That news surprised me. $5 billion USD a year in revenue is a lot of money. Even for Facebook.

They are just printing money from their China business.

Now, imagine if Trump told Zuck that Facebook couldn’t do any more transactions with China. That deserves a LOL..




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