Ya that's another very common frustration against an imaginary premise. Western companies that enter joint ventures in China with IP transfers are proactively

Ya that's another very common frustration against an imaginary premise. Western companies that enter joint ventures in China with IP transfers are proactively done with executives who explicitly weigh the cost benefit of gaining the Chinese market and choose to do so. An equivalent here would be for ByteDance to choose to enter the US market knowing they need to oxymoronically abdicate ownership once they do.