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That might happen, yeah. I don't want to come off like a "trust the plan" type, but I do like the saying "Americans player checkers, Russians play chess, Chinese play Go".
Let the Yanks smile as they yell "King me!"
not even checkers, tic-tac-toe
That's more or less how it's going. There's still Temu and other apps that the US tries to demonize as they're widely used by the rest of the world. I don't doubt that China has other apps that will rival American apps. The blue jeans are no longer in the US and I don't think China will end up like Japan in the 90's either.
It also got banned in India where Youtube Shorts and Indian apps like JOSH filled the gap.
I also have a small pet theory about Temu and others like it and why they are entering the Western market so strongly right now: this is Chinese firms taking the lead in being the one selling treats to Westoids like me with less middle men. As they are the ones making all the things. Bezos doesn't get a cut and it's the same stuff they sell on Amazon or in my local supermarket.
People will follow their material interest and buy from there because it's cheaper and easier. I hear a lot of Temu discourse in my country atm and everyone is ordering and not listening to the attemps to discredit it. Prices here are high enough, if you can get those gardening tools for 1/5th of the price you will not buy the expensive ones.
Eventually Chinese firms just sell the stuff they make straight to the consumers globally and none of the Western billionaires get a cut.