Watch TikTok to learn the art of war

Video: Watch TikTok to learn the art of war. How will the chess game between Zhou Shouzi and Trump proceed? It seems that everyone will continue to watch TikTok to learn the art of war. China's "Sun Tzu's Art of War" has this trick: "Throw yourself into death and then survive; trap yourself into death and then survive."

屈穎妍：看TikTok學兵法。周受資與特朗普的棋局將怎樣走下去？看來，大家又要繼續看TikTok學兵法了。 中國的《孫子兵法》有這一招：「投之亡地然後存，陷之死地然後生。」

No need for further explanation, everyone understands that this is what we modern people often say "risk of death and then rebirth", and yesterday TikTok's CEO Zhou Shouzi demonstrated this Chinese trick to the world.

Zhou Shouzi is a Chinese who was born in Singapore. He studied at Hwa Chong Institution during his formative years, and then went to the UK for university and the US for a master's degree. In recent years, he has led TikTok to fight against the US government. I believe everyone still remembers the scene of him fighting against many congressmen alone. new.

Recently, a US court issued an injunction requiring TikTok to separate from its parent company ByteDance and sell itself to the United States or its allies, otherwise TikTok’s services in the United States will be banned on January 19. Faced with this "sell or ban" rule, TikTok CEO Chow Sau-chih took a risky move and announced to 170 million American users on January 18, before the deadline, that TikTok would stop serving in the U.S. market. Declaring oneself "dead" is, as the Art of War says, putting oneself in a position of death.

The U.S. population is 330 million, and TikTok has 170 million users in the U.S. alone. That is to say, the U.S. court's ban on TikTok directly angered half of Americans.

These angry Americans went to the mainland's "Little Red Book" to open accounts, calling themselves "TikTok refugees", and even said that they were not afraid of privacy leaks and would directly hand over their personal information to China as a form of resistance to the unreasonable suppression of the US government.

I am reminded of the most powerful military strategy of Chairman Mao, who was good at fighting back then: surround the cities from the countryside.

Today, each TikTok user is like a small village. After several years of hard work, in addition to sharing their lives, some have also found a source of income.

For example, a gaming influencer in Maryland, USA, who has 265,000 followers, earns more than US$5,000 (nearly HK$40,000) a month by uploading videos to review and test various games.

These small households have little influence when scattered, but when gathered together they have great power, just like the military strategy of surrounding the cities from the countryside, uniting the grassroots people to shake the regime.

Just imagine, these American civilians and small businesses who have lost their income or even their livelihoods due to the loss of TikTok are not one or two, but millions. If they rise up in resistance, what do you think the consequences will be?

170 million people, not all of them, as long as half of them become your enemies, even the most tough politicians will kneel down.

A move that put him in a desperate situation actually resulted in a chance of survival. Less than 14 hours after TikTok announced its shutdown, President-elect Trump publicly promised that he would sign an executive order to extend the ban as soon as he took office. Having obtained the golden medal of immunity, TikTok immediately announced the resumption of its services in the United States.

Trump also humorously said that he hopes netizens can watch his presidential inauguration on TikTok.

In addition to thanking Trump in a statement, TikTok's CEO Zhou Shouzi will also attend Trump's inauguration. At that time, one Musk, one Zhou Shouzi, one representative of the rich, and one civilian platform, Trump will probably After calculation, this combination makes his inauguration scene much better looking.

However, politicians are fickle. What will be the fate of TikTok in the United States? How will the game between Zhou Shouzi and Trump develop? It seems that everyone will have to continue watching TikTok to learn military tactics.

不用多解釋，大家都明白，這就是我們現代人常說的「置之死地然後生」，而昨天TikTok公司的行政總裁周受資更為全世界示範這中國式絕招。

周受資是在新加坡出生的華人，成長期是唸華僑中學，之後再赴英國唸大學、美國讀碩士，近年統領TikTok與美國政府打仗，一人力戰眾多國會議員的圍攻畫面，相信大家仍記憶猶新。

日前，美國法院頒佈禁令，要求TikTok脫離母公司「字節跳動」，並賣給美國或其盟國，否則在1月19日就禁止TikTok在美國的服務。面對這項「不賣就禁」的規定，TikTok行政總裁周受資來一記兵行險著，在限期前的1月18日，向美國1.7億用戶直接宣佈TikTok在美國市場停止服務，自我宣佈「死亡」，如兵法所言，置之死地。

美國人口3.3億，TikTok在美國就有用戶1.7億，即是說，美國法院封殺TikTok的禁令，直接激怒了一半美國人。

這些憤怒的美國人跑到內地「小紅書」開帳戶，自稱「TikTok難民」，甚至說他們不怕私隱外洩，直接把個人資料交給中國，以此作為對美國政府無理打壓的反抗。

我想起，當年善戰的毛主席最厲害一招兵法：農村包圍城市。

今天一個個TikTok用戶就如同一個個小村落，幾年的努力經營，除了分享生活，有些更成了收入來源。

舉個例，美國馬里蘭州一個有26.5萬粉絲的遊戲網紅，透過上載影片評價及測試各款遊戲，每月就有超過5千美元收入（即近4萬港元）。

這些小戶分散看影響力很小，但聚起來力量就很大，就如同當年農村包圍城市的兵法，團結最基層的人來撼動政權。

試想想，這些因為失去TikTok而失去收入甚至沒了生計的美國平民及美國小企業，不是一個、兩個，而是幾百萬，如果他們群起反抗，你道後果會如何？

1.7億人，不必全部，只要有一半成了你的仇家，再強硬的政客都要跪低。

一記置之死地，果然換來生天。當TikTok宣佈熄機，不到14小時，候任總統特朗普就公開承諾一上台就會簽署行政命令，延長禁令的生效期限。拿了免死金牌，TikTok亦立即宣佈恢復在美服務。

特朗普還幽默地說，希望網友能在TikTok觀看他的總統就職典禮。

TikTok除了在聲明中感謝特朗普，其行政總裁周受資更會出席特朗普的就職典禮，到時，一個馬斯克，一個周受資，一個富豪代表，一個平民平台，特朗普大概計算過，這組合讓他的就職畫面好看多了。

不過，政客是反覆無常的，TikTok在美國的命運將會如何？周受資與特朗普的棋局將怎樣走下去？看來，大家又要繼續看TikTok學兵法了。