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The controls are the latest from Beijing to flex China’s global dominance of supply chains, especially for cutting-edge industries and defense systems.

Typically, the main benefit is employee retention: Workers who can flex and upskill across an organization are less likely to leave for those opportunities, he said.

"And also that you listened to me. It was like, you really know me. I didn't know what I would want, but he did somehow. And that's kind of a flex."

The tensions come as the Google-owned television service flexes its market muscle.

“Some of the position flex we’ve built up at that position really paid off.”