Governor Ricketts in Nebraska gets it.
From Dove to Hawk
The state of Texas has also banned Tic Toc from state owned devices.
From Dove to Hawk
Steering the flagship farming state of Nebraska, Gov. Pete Ricketts has been all about opening doors for the world’s markets to access his state’s plentiful produce. From top-quality beef raised on the lush Great Plains pastures to the premier agri-tech that assists the growing of crops around the world, Nebraska has been exporting billions of dollars worth of products, a lot of it to East Asia. It made perfect sense to Ricketts to lead a trade mission to China in 2016 in an effort to expand the market further yet.
What happened on the trip, and in the following years, however, gave the Republican a rude awakening.
What happened on the trip, and in the following years, however, gave the Republican a rude awakening.
Ricketts moved the state’s trade office from Shanghai to Germany. He urged the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, to get rid of the CCP-controlled Confucius Institute, which it did. He banned the state government from doing business with CCP-related entities. He also banned Chinese-owned social media app Tik Tok from government devices. {emphasis added}