James Kynge

But I'm glad that we're focusing on it today because it is one of those

sort of lurking risks in the Chinese system that now that it's come to the fore, I think it at least deserves a good look at.

Yeah, absolutely.

I was also thinking about Lin Biao.

I mean, you know, he was purged after he attempted to assassinate Chairman Mao by sabotaging the train that Chairman Mao was riding on in the early 1970s.

So, you know, this type of thing does happen in China.

I think most of these stories we simply never hear about.

So, you know, that's my kind of payoff line in this.

The

that it really is so hard for anyone to find out what the true situation is and what the true stories are behind, in this case, the downfall of Jiang Youxia, Xi Jinping's old friend and comrade in arms, as they say.

I would say it's certainly a big victory for ByteDance and, as you said, probably for Trump.

But to me...

The really key issue here is, have the risks to the American people been truly expunged?

I mean, does this really mean that ByteDance's control, especially over the TikTok algorithm, has been severed or not?

And I think, you know, obviously it's a crucial topic.

I mean, TikTok has more than 170 million users in the U.S.

And it's no longer, you know, just young people who are looking at TikTok.

Even oldies like me, I think, according to the latest statistics, are all on TikTok, glued to TikTok.

Are you using TikTok, James?

Yeah, you betcha.