Very good point. It is a noble hole.

Know your meme hot dog guy

Butt holes have a positive function, I do not agree with being that kind to our centuries.

It seems that the Chinese company chose to abandon the acquisition. I see three possible reasons.

This may have been part of a wider Chinese negotiation with the US on security technology. It might have destabilised some position or other, cost more in US hostility elsewhere, etc.

Also, the Dutch do tend to be very cooperative with US government demands, if they are tolerable; the Chinese company might simply have recognised that the Dutch would now block the acquisition at the request of the US.

Third, the US could easily block the company’s trade permissions, stopping its access to a key world market. That would have made the acquisition far less profitable, and the company would have no reason to continue.

MTG?

Jupiter’s got diamond bones, baby.

Yes indeed, and I was making a terrible pun. 😄

I guess we just keep on touring then.