Meta’s $2 billion Manus acquisition blocked by China.

Posted by Nunki08@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 51 comments

From 猫总 on 𝕏: https://x.com/catmangox/status/2048680484037935200

"National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China
Government Information Disclosure
Public disclosure item name: The Office of the Working Mechanism for Security Review of Foreign Investment issued a security review decision on the acquisition of the Manus project by a foreign investor.
Index number: 000013039-2026-00026
Issuing unit: National Development and Reform Commission
Date of issuance: 2026-04-27
Office of the Working Mechanism for Security Review of Foreign Investment
(National Development and Reform Commission)
Security review decision issued on the acquisition of the Manus project by a foreign investor
The Office of the Working Mechanism for Security Review of Foreign Investment, under the National Development and Reform Commission, has, in accordance with laws and regulations, issued a decision prohibiting the foreign-investor acquisition of the Manus project, and requires the relevant parties to cancel the acquisition transaction."

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charmander_cha@reddit

Corretamente, não se permite que nazistas possam ter propriedade de qualquer tipo em seu país.

Simples assim.

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OkStandard921@reddit

The average Chinese is a lot more xenophobic than the average American lmao.

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charmander_cha@reddit

Literalmente as big techs estão envolvidas em genocídios.

De um lado nos temos etnocentrismo, comum da humanidade.

Do outro, uma big tech que tem levado a massacres e quedas de governos com intuito deixar a população em situação pior socialmente falando.

Talvez seja a hora de você pesquisar sobre os crimes da Meta na África.

E avaliar se seu comparativo ante de tudo, tem ou não sentido.

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yvesp90@reddit

People downvote you instead of literally research what you're saying which is all you're asking lol

America is a cult

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marco89nish@reddit

What did Meta do to you? 😂

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OkStandard921@reddit

Third worldist slop. Maybe research the Chinese's aggression against the Philippines, Taiwanese, Vietnamese or their neo colonialist activity in Africa.

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SilentDanni@reddit

Are you sure? I've lived in both countries and definitely have faced more discrimination in the US than I ever did in China. The US has, without a doubt, been the most xenophobic place I've ever been to.

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IngenuityNo1411@reddit

你们什么时候不歧视你们国内的黄种人、黑人、拉丁裔了才有资格评价我们排不排外🤣🤣

ilintar@reddit

Oopsies :)

I do suspect that if, say, DeepSeek were to acquire Huggingface, the American regulator would do the same. It's an AI Cold War, after all.

Accurate-Tap-8634@reddit

US Gov even banned selling consumer grade gaming GPU to China, HG?

MagicZhang@reddit

Yep, they don’t get the full 5090 iirc

mrdevlar@reddit

I'm sure the current Trump appointee to the FTC is just as post it note that says "Whateva".

cacahuete_spicy@reddit

The french regulator* ;)

HF is an American company even though it's run by the French.

Sufficient-Past-9722@reddit

America is the Delaware of the world for tech companies.

SK5454@reddit

Delaware is the America of the world for tech companies.

cms2307@reddit

No_Swimming6548@reddit

Does nothing Wins

MerePotato@reddit

Such bullshit, its a Singaporean company and China has the founders held hostage with an exit ban

ExerciseFickle8540@reddit

If it is a US company (pretending to be a Singapore company) selling itself to a Chinese company, the executives will probably be in jail now

droans@reddit

Like ByteDance?

Its not pretending to be, it's based out of singapore

Distinct-Policy-6411@reddit

It is in no way a Singapore based company. Headquarter in Singapore sure. But nowhere based out of Singapore. Stop spreading false news.

StewPorkRice@reddit

huh? do you think its illegal for us citizens to sell a business to Chinese citizens?

ismail_the_whale@reddit

so....the US is allowed to randomly ban DJI and every single chinese car company but china isn't allowed to do the same?

You know the world isn't just China and the US right, they both suck in different ways

kr_tech@reddit

It's not bullshit, this is the standard.

For businesses intending to do a merger that are operating in multiple countries, they need merge approval for every single one of those countries, though in some countries, it may be so easy that it almost seems like you don't need one. Otherwise, they won't be able to do business serving that region. Both Meta and Manus have interests to serve the Chinese region, and you know what they say about following the laws in Rome.

Yeah, so not only do you not have a say, your opinion is just plain invalid.

CYTR_@reddit

Bruh... 2 billion in this wrapper that doesn't even work that well 😭

Beginning-Window-115@reddit

its about the data

That's an expensive piece of data! Especially since I thought it was supposed to be """"protected"""" from exploitation by the company...

Moist-Length1766@reddit

2bn is 50 cents for Facebook

WhichWall3719@reddit

It's barely even Facebook's money, they borrowed like half a trillion to eat up all the competition to position themselves for AGI

DigiDecode_@reddit

If they allow this, other startups might try the same, this just says "don't try this shit" to all other startups

MelodicRecognition7@reddit

it is about the hype, hype has direct impact on stocks price unlike the data

Howdareme9@reddit

Doubt it, meta has enough of that

No such thing as enough in the AI race

Cool-Chemical-5629@reddit

Data doesn't magically update itself.

meshcity@reddit

To be so naive in 2026 🥺

you can never have enough data 👌

xmnstr@reddit

I mean, their stuff looked really impressive when they launched but then we didn't really hear much. I guess that's why. Being first to market isn't always the best move.

throwaway12junk@reddit

I'll just take this as an opportunity to say: nobody loves Xi Jinping more than Mark Zuckerberg.

Due-Memory-6957@reddit

Zuckerberg wants to get into China so bad, he also pulled similar stunts with their previous leader.

Briskfall@reddit

According to Page Six, at a prestigious White House dinner hosted by President Obama and the First Lady, Zuckerberg approached President Xi about the subject of his unborn child.

At the dinner, which included Apple’s Tim Cook and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Zuckerberg reportedly asked President Xi whether he would be able to give an honorary Chinese name to the daughter he and wife Priscilla Chan are expecting.

Page Six claims President Xi said the task would be “too much responsibility” and declined, though a spokesperson for Zuckerberg told the newspaper this was not correct.

Damn... if the scoop was true, then Xi deflected that so elegantly.

Though for Zucc to even make such a proposal in the first place, how conceited must one be!

(Not even an "English" name, mind you, but a "honourary Chinese name" -- that's a staggering amount of self-importance put on display -- if the tea were true)