Benjy Sarlin
In another brilliant gambit, Trump telegraphed for months that saving TikTok was critical to him and then decided to time the tariffs right as they were on the verge of a deal, thus blowing it up and handing over said leverage
Matthew Zeitlin
it's funny how things flipped from "consensus that tiktok is a CCP spying and propaganda app that needs to be banned or onshored" to "tiktok's continued existence in the US is now a point of leverage for China"