Stu Woo

Well, it's owned by a Chinese parent company, ByteDance.

And the concern was that ByteDance could do two things.

It could, number one, spy on the phones of Americans.

And number two, it could adjust the content on TikTok.

So it might show some videos that might be friendly toward China or might show some sort of discord in America.

So the idea is that now with Oracle overseeing everything that runs on TikTok, they're going to be able to spot something that says, oh, wait a minute, that seems un-American, that seems unsafe.

That's the idea, that it lets TikTok keep on operating in America, but it will be controlled by Americans, not a company in China.

So over the last couple of months, the U.S.

and China have been getting friendlier amid what a lot of people call this U.S.-China tech cold war.

So this TikTok deal has happened.

And before that, Trump said, OK, NVIDIA, you make the world's best AI chips, but we're going to let you sell some relatively new chips to China, even though China and the U.S.

are fighting for AI supremacy that could decide modern warfare, for example.

There's this sort of mindset in Washington among the national security hawks that trade and national security issues are different.

They say, when it comes to national security, we don't want to give anything that might give China an edge.

And trade deals should be different.

President Trump, on the other hand, thinks that everything's on the table.

So let's throw in national security issues.

Let's put that away if we can get a better deal on trade or something else like that.

And that's upset a lot of people who are really focused on national security.

That's right.