People would say "This lawsuit is unlikely to succeed in an authoritarian state and either way the important thing is not whether US companies can operate there

People would say "This lawsuit is unlikely to succeed in an authoritarian state and either way the important thing is not whether US companies can operate there, but the Chinese government's violations of human rights and curtailing of freedom of their own citizens, and that's what we should be using our social and economic power to address." If the "game" is censorship and social control of citizens, why on earth would you cheer on either side in a tit-for-tat? People are pretending this is about IP or free trade, but it's not like China is going to let people install Signal so US teenagers can install TikTok. Best case scenario is what, a Chinese operated and moderated version of Facebook while the US administration gets to moderate TikTok in the US? Or the Great US Firewall? Or China just endorses Trump and he drops the whole thing. There are tons of legitimate criticisms of China but if this isn't motivated by any of them the outcome is unlikely to be help.