i think both issues of tiktok & chinese products import tax increase- will b negotiated between trump & china, i expect them to reach an agreement where it continue to operate somehow & where more US products enter the chinese market- maybe something like for a company from 1 party to sell on the other party's land it must have at least 1 factory there that use local workers & at least half of what that company sells on the other party's land is made there. china is the factory of the world for the US to replace it with latin america, africa, south asia, south east asia it would take decades to get enough infra structure to do the replacement. also cheaper chinese products give more purchasing power to the average US,EU,CA,AU,NZ people so sure those people won't welcome the reduction of their purchasing power due to a higher import taxes specially that most of them pay more to much more for electricity, heating, transportation than they used to so most already lost part of their purchasing power. back to the tiktok issue f it's ok for the US to ban an app due to "national security reasons"- won't that mean it's ok for any country to ban any app for "national security reasons" with no more labeling it as "depression of freedom of speech", then what can the chinese secret intelligence do with people's data that the US secret intelligence can't do- isn't it the same thing. finally- some people use social media platforms as a host of their online shop, others use them to advertise their physical stores, others make content "content creators" & all those people make a living from or with the help of those platforms & their numbers increase everyday, it's said to b that 10s of millions of people around the world make a living this way- specially people from less developed countries with less jobs opportunities, so not all people but many make money from or with the help of social media. interesting post- have a good day