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Income Taxes (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2021	Mar. 31, 2020
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Provisional income tax benefit	$ 71,000,000
Foreign withholding income tax	45,000,000	$ 45,000,000
Valuation allowance against deferred tax asset	$ 26,000,000	26,000,000
Withholding tax due		$ 0

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Foreign Withholding Income Tax

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Amount of increase (decrease) in the valuation allowance for a specified deferred tax asset.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 740
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84230637&loc=d3e32537-109319

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