Biden signs law to ban TikTok: Latest attack in US economic war on China
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US President Joe Biden signed a law that will force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app, or it will be banned in the US. Ben Norton explains how this is part of Washington's economic war, aimed at protecting Big Tech monopolies in Silicon Valley.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_WFYov2kfLI
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0:00 Biden signs law to ban TikTok
1:39 US tech war on China
5:00 India banned Chinese apps, giving US Big Tech total control
6:38 Protectionism or economic war?
8:30 Silicon Valley lobbied against TikTok
9:37 Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok... before doing 180
12:15 Role of Israel/Palestine/Gaza?
13:42 US trade war with Japan in 1980s
15:38 "Free market" hypocrisy
18:25 US does not truly want "competition" with China
19:39 Outro
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