Another person familiar with the plans noted that TikTok was paying the cost of sending influencers to DC. It was unclear which influential people would be making the trip.
“Lawmakers in Washington debating TikTok should hear firsthand from the people whose lives would be directly affected by their decisions,” TikTok spokesman Jamal Brown said. “We look forward to welcoming our creators to our nation’s capital, helping them make their voices heard, and continuing to make a meaningful impact in their lives and communities.”
ByteDance has amassed an army of public relations and lobbying professionals in recent years to fend off threats to its business, which began with efforts by the Trump Administration to effectively ban the app. (…)
As the administration has pondered the app’s fate in the US, the company hired Biden-connected PR and political consulting firm SKDK. Former SKDK employees holding the ranks of the administration include Anita Dunnwho was a founding partner of the firm and is now Biden’s senior adviser. (…)”.
Globalization Murder
Let’s go now to Olivier Sueuranalyst at the Institute for Applied Geopolitical Studies (Institut d’études de géopolitique appliquée), in the worldwhich helps to understand the destruction that the USA executes of its creation, globalization, consequence of the defeat that China inflicted on it:
“The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and its hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to the clean energy industry are generating anxiety in Europe. This voluntary industrial policy raises fears not only of a loss of attractiveness of our continent and therefore of relocations, but also of a broader stagnation in the development of the industries of the future.However, our business leaders must understand that this is the tip of the iceberg: the IRA is part of a much broader strategy with a direct impact on investment decisions, location and external growth.
The stated objective of the United States is to “adjust globalization”, as can be read in its national security strategy, released in October 2022. Given China’s growing economic, technological and military power, the rules governing the world economy and trade must be reviewed. As Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser, lapidarily explained: “Market access was the orthodoxy of all trade policy for 30 years, it no longer corresponds to current issues.”
How does this translate into practice? First, It is the great return of the State to the national economy. It is not that it is traditionally absent in the United States, quite the contrary, but there is a change of scale: between November 2021 and August 2022, more than US$ 1.2 billion are programmed to finance investments in infrastructure, semiconductors and energy. of transition, provided that all or part of the production is carried out in the United States.
The White House calls for “a modern innovation and industrial strategy” based on strategic public investments and the use of public procurement in critical markets to not only maintain America’s competitive advantage in the world of competition, but also strengthen the environment. class that supports the resilience of the country.
The second is the promotion of new international trade frameworks to replace traditional free trade agreements. Its specificity is now to link commercial and technological issues with two key ideas: first, to ensure supply chains in a logic of a techno-industrial ecosystem of allied countries and partners governed by shared standards; then protect its technological lead over “digital authoritarians” like China by preventing the transfer of “foundational” technologies through export controls.
The goal is to prevent certain countries from using economic and technological levers to restrict others. The EU-US Trade and Technology Council established in 2021 responds to this much more inclusive US approach to trade.
This economic and technological strategy is derived from the US perception of world balances for the next 20 years. It creates strong competitive risks for many European industrial sectors. It also creates new positioning opportunities within global value chains. Our business leaders, in France and in Europe, must adapt to these changes and interact with public authorities to define the best possible responses to these new challenges. (…)”.
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