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Google plays the China card.

Judge James Donato ordered that Google could bring up once and only once during the trial that Epic Games is partially owned by Tencent, a Chinese company, and not dwell on it. That just happened.

Kravis didn’t do much with it, simply adding it to a machine-gun list of yes/no questions including “Tencent is a Chinese company, right?” and “Tencent is a significant investor in Epic Games?” later suggesting out that Tencent signed a Project Hug deal as well.

I’m afraid I didn’t glance up at the jury in time to see if there was any reaction. They seem fairly comfortable and completely unreadable right now.

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