When will Google fall?

As soon as a competitor or competitors of their Youtube service appear

The company makes money from advertising, and if people don't watch Youtube, they won't see the ads, which means revenue will plummet.

Another option is that Google or Alphabet will find themselves embroiled in some kind of grandiose scandal

What happens if China starts a war with Taiwan?

There is a 30% chance that China will launch military operations. After Pelosi's visit, China's maneuvers resulted in an economic blockade of Taiwan.

If war breaks out, China will fight against Taiwan, America, Japan and Nato. India may join the conflict. China can seize the island by force, but it will be an empty island destroyed by war, which will have to be rebuilt. Sanctions will be imposed on China. Because of the sanctions, all of China's economic and scientific successes will be nullified. China is also monitoring the outcome of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

And what Taiwan is preparing for. The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China is about to take place, where very serious decisions on Taiwan can be made. Therefore, Taiwan shows in advance that it is ready for negotiations.

Taiwan Relations Act

Like Huawei, but only for everyone: the US has tightened sanctions on the sale of semiconductors to China. What does this threaten the PRC

An island of discord. How does the conflict between the US and China over Taiwan risk depriving the whole world of familiar goods?

The danger of the approach of China's military equipment to Taiwan was appreciated

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Why is TikTok actually banned in the US?

Due to the inability to compete

Anti-Chinese sentiment now dominates the United States, and the fight against the social network only adds to the pressure. It bothers Americans that such a large digital marketplace is not under their control, so they are trying to get TikTok or get rid of it.

The US is trying to take down a successful Chinese company that produced the single most successful media program outside of China, and the threat to national security is just a pretext.

TikTok could be completely banned in the US?

National security is not the main thing. Why the US wants to ban TikTok

What's wrong with open source projects?

Large corporations engaged in software development do not shy away from stealing other people's intellectual property in the form of open source code and integrating it into their commercial software

Sooner or later, every programmer will start making his own project, so as not to create competition, Open Source was invented when a programmer, no matter how much time he spent, would not write his own commercial Windows, and his code could be used for free, and he himself would never share it with corporations.

There are other pitfalls, for example, vulnerability in a particular free component can lead to serious threats to information security.