Humumps

Just listened to a very earnest blog detailing how the Chinese Government could use TikTok to bend the minds of enough people in, say, the US to get their dirty way in, say, Taiwan.

Here’s how it would work:

1. China does what it has always said it would do – take back Taiwan
2. Usually there would be outrage in the Western press which would give the Western pollies the nudge they need to challenge China on the matter.
3. However, China would apparently now use TikTok to massage the opinions of their Western users, thus influencing the political response in the West.

Would it work? Who knows?

There has to come a time where the people simply aren’t important. You don’t care what they think or do, so you don’t bother trying to massage their feeble brains. If you take that thread and pull it, why in the hell would you want the bother of owning Taiwan? It’s just more headaches.