Tencent also owns a big chunk of Blizzard Entertainment, which is why that one champion Hearthstone player got banned for supporting the Hong Kong protesters.
There is no functional separation in China between corporations and the Party. US based businesses should be prohibited from selling shares to Chinese nationals or China-owned legal entities, partnering, or otherwise interacting with such in any way. Did we let the Soviet steel industry buy out US foundries during the Cold War?
Tencent also owns a big chunk of Blizzard Entertainment, which is why that one champion Hearthstone player got banned for supporting the Hong Kong protesters.
There is no functional separation in China between corporations and the Party. US based businesses should be prohibited from selling shares to Chinese nationals or China-owned legal entities, partnering, or otherwise interacting with such in any way. Did we let the Soviet steel industry buy out US foundries during the Cold War?
They also paid Bungie (the devs of Destiny 2) enough money to where they no longer needed to be supported by Activision (who owns blizzard)
So ask yourself, why would a company that owns shares of blizzard pay a dev team also under the same umbrella enough money to help them separate?