How ByteDance tried to cross the US-China internet divide with TikTok, offering appeasements to both sides that were undermined by the geopolitical reality
The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, dreamed of building a global tech company based in China. Then the geopolitical reality set in. Tweets: @zhonggg and @ewong Tweets: Raymond Zhong / @zhonggg : The Chinese entrepreneur behind TikTok took plenty of precautions when he set out to straddle the tech world's most treacherous divide. It didn't count for much in the end. https://www.nytimes.com/... Edward Wong / @ewong : Good story in @TheAtlantic by @MichaelSchuman on TikTok & how its global success and its political problems in the US embody the contradictions of the US, China and relations between the 2 nations. Has interview w/ founder Zhang Yiming. h/t @prashantrao. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...