This keeps coming up but it's not factual https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tiktok-china-state-media-accuses-us-of-trying-to-steal-the-app https://www.msn.c

This keeps coming up but it's not factual https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tiktok-china-state-media-accuses-us-of-trying-to-steal-the-app https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tiktok-china-state-medi... According to Lee Kai-Fu who launched Google in China: "Chinese laws are clear about what foreign companies can do to operate in China. In TikTok's case, though, the company was left no choice but to consider a forced sale." China doesn't not allow western companies to operate. Google proactively made the choice to exit China (it also somewhat didn't. Google ads has a sizable market share in China as does Facebook). I'm not arguing that they should have elected to follow Chinese laws but the actions the Chinese government took with western companies was not to either tell them to stop existing in the Chinese market or abdicate their ownership to a domestic company. These were also the same laws domestic companies follow. Conversely, I don't see the executive actions being applied to TikTok applied uniformly to the US market.