It seems China has finally decided to play the ‘high-stakes poker’ with the tech giants, using antitrust probes as their trump cards. Imagine the tech execs, now the unwanted advisors to Trump, feeling like pawns in a geopolitical game of chess. ‘Influence’ is the new buzzword, but what if their ‘orbit’ just got a whole lot more elliptical? And tariffs? Let’s hope these tech titans can negotiate a better deal than they did on their last Silicon Valley party.
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