Yahoo Finance Is Game of Thrones the latest casualty in the China-US trade war?
Game of Thrones fans in China have a bone to pick with Tencent Video, after the show’s finale failed to air yesterday.
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CNN reported Tencent, whose video platform owns the streaming rights to the HBO series in China, announced a delay in posting the Game of Thrones final episode ever “due to a media transmission problem”.
The statement didn’t give fans a new air date either, but HBO said in a statement it had no issues with content delivery, and deferred to Tencent for further clarification.
Viewers demanded refunds for their membership from Tencent, Reuters reported, and then headed to social media to express their frustrations, with some blaming the trade war.
"What's next — cutting off internet connections between China and the US?" one user wrote on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter.
If their assumptions are true, it’s the latest casualty of the trade war, and it follows a letter from over 170 shoe retailers, including Nike and Adidas, asking President Trump to reconsider raising his decision to raise tariffs on footwear to 25 per cent.
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