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To: Julius Wong who wrote (210421)	1/21/2025 8:07:24 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218005

re <<Dutch government excludes most ASML sales to China from 'dual use' export data>> ... yeup, ASML needs to and are selling to China whatever it must so as to not be left behind like a fluff of used tissue. End of ASML in sight. The Dutch did it to themselves by going up against the returning sovereign w/r to China 2025 objectives. Play nice and perhaps another 10 years for ASML, 2035, and if not play nice, end of time 2030, two guesses.

To: Julius Wong who wrote (210421)	1/21/2025 8:19:31 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218005

re <<data>> ... very interesting, it seems that the resuscitated TikTok had a change of heart, literally, meaning the algorithm has been swapped out, from the superior to the inferior, readying for trade sale or IPO, to be in compliance to the rule of 2020 sovereign law that says the algorithm must not be sold out of China domain English language revelations starts 5:45 mark, and revelations chime with the Bloomberg story appended below the vlog scmp.com TikTok’s algorithm not for sale, ByteDance tells US: source - Chinese tech company decides not to sell or transfer code behind the popular video-sharing app, source says - Decision comes in final countdown to Trump’s deadline for sale of American operations Zhou Xinand Tracy Qu Published: 11:00pm, 13 Sep 2020 Updated: 4:10pm, 15 Oct 2020 ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok, will not sell or transfer the algorithm behind the popular video-sharing app in any sale or divestment deal, according to a source briefed on the Chinese company’s boardroom discussions. bloomberg.com Trump Says He’s Open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison Purchasing TikTok By Alexandra S. Levine and Stephanie Lai 22 January 2025 at 07:12 GMT+8 President Donald Trump said he would be open to billionaire supporter Elon Musk or Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison purchasing social video app TikTok as part of a joint venture with the US government. “I have the right to make a deal,” Trump said at an event alongside Ellison at the White House on Tuesday. “So what I’m thinking about saying to somebody is buy it and give half to the United States of America, half, and we’ll give you the permit, and they’ll have a great partner.” Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Jan. 21.Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/Sipa/Bloomberg While TikTok temporarily went offline over the weekend, Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 – his first day in office – to extend the deadline for a sale by 75 days. While it’s not clear that Trump has the authority to extend the deadline, it may not ultimately matter. ByteDance Ltd. has publicly refused to sell TikTok, though prospective buyers hope the Supreme Court’s ruling and the brief TikTok shutdown could push it to reconsider. “You have an asset that has no value or has a trillion dollar value,” Trump said. “It all depends on whether or not the United States gives the permit.” That prospect has potential bidders lining up. A group of American investors assembled by tech entrepreneur Jesse Tinsley that included MrBeast, the internet’s most-followed and highest-earning content creator, announced a bid earlier Tuesday. Billionaire Frank McCourt, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary made a formal offer to buy TikTok earlier this month. O’Leary has already met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss the bid, and McCourt has made clear he’d be happy to buy TikTok without the service’s coveted content algorithm, which ByteDance and China’s government have said is not for sale. Amazon.com Inc. and Oracle, both of which already do business with TikTok, have also been floated as possible suitors. After assurances from Trump that he wouldn’t enforce the law, Oracle notably helped restore TikTok’s app on Sunday after a roughly 14-hour US shutdown even though it could face fines for doing so. Ellison was at the White House on Tuesday to announce a new joint artificial intelligence venture alongside Softbank Group Corp. and OpenAI LLC. At the end of his remarks, Trump suggested he might download TikTok on his phone. “I think I might put it there. I think I’ll get it right now. By the way, again we won the young vote. I think I won it through Tiktok, so I have a warm spot in my heart for Tiktok,” he said.