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Read Trump's full 2020 UN speech on the coronavirus and China Vox.comWhere Trump and Biden Stand on China The Wall Street JournalTrump tells UN to hold China accountable for coronavirus pandemic Fox NewsAppeasing China Won't Cool the Earth The Wall Street JournalUN General Assembly: China must be held accountable for Covid-19, Trump says BBC NewsView Full Coverage on Google News
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 Investors who owned stocks in the 2010s generally experienced some big gains. In fact, the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) total return for the decade was 250.5%. But there's no question some big-name stocks did much better than others along the way.Oracle's Difficult Decade: One poor performer of the last decade was cloud service stock Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL).Oracle spent much of the past decade transitioning away from its legacy businesses of on-premise database services, hardware and business software to a new cloud services-centric model.In 2016, Oracle paid $9.3 billion for cloud pioneer NetSuite. Unfortunately, Oracle's major investments in cloud services aren't generating the type of growth investors had hoped. Revenue was flat on a constant-currency basis in fiscal 2020. Cloud license revenue and on-premise license revenues have been particularly weak in recent quarters.TikTok Drama: The good news for Oracle investors is that the company has made two potentially game-changing deals during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, Oracle landed Zoom Video Communications Inc (NASDAQ: ZM) as a cloud customer earlier this year. Second, Oracle emerged as a winner from a messy bidding war among American companies to partner with popular social media app TikTok.When Chinese TikTok parent company ByteDance rejected a buyout offer from Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT), Oracle swooped in to secure a deal to become TikTok's "technology partner." As part of the deal, Or
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