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One of the mysteries of the TikTok ban saga is why Zhang Yiming, CEO of Tiktok’s owner ByteDance, wasn’t better prepared for the Trump administration’s onslaught
Zhang was not focused on international politics. And the company didn’t staff up to meet the potential challenges.

As of 2018, ByteDance executives in China were managing TikTok’s global expansion.
Some of the company’s employees in Beijing were tasked with analyzing potential regulatory and legal risks in foreign markets where TikTok operated. But most of those employees on that team didn’t have any real-world experiences related to policy or legal issues...
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