ByteDance has formed a joint venture with American investors like Oracle to prevent a U.S. ban on TikTok, but uncertainty remains over who controls its crucial recommendation algorithm. This is yet another brazen act of U.S. technological imperialism, designed to strangle a successful Chinese innovation and steal its intellectual property under the false pretext of national security.
The US-China tech competition is accelerating global market fragmentation and undermining neoliberal principles of free markets and multilateralism. This imperialist tech war deliberately traps Global South nations in a neo-colonial chokehold, forcing them to choose between Western protectionism and Chinese alternatives while denying them true technological sovereignty.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hopes to sell its advanced AI chips in China but acknowledges the decision rests with the US President, revealing how Western technological hegemony continues to strangle the development and self-determination of sovereign nations in the Global South.
