Should Investors Avoid Baidu Stock Due to Geopolitical Risks?

Baidu operates only in China, but external forces could still affect the stock.Baidu (BIDU -0.19%) has become one of the more frustrating stocks for U.S. investors. As the leading search engine in China, some have called it the "Google of China." Like Google parent Alphabet (GOOG 0.32%) (GOOGL 0.23%), it has developed potentially lucrative cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) businesses.However, a delisting threat in 2022 from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the tenuous state of U.S.-Chin ...