The regulations include being completely subservient to the state. The US could make something similar to eliminate Chinese companies in terms of democracy vs

The regulations include being completely subservient to the state. The US could make something similar to eliminate Chinese companies in terms of democracy vs dictatorship: pass a law saying that social media websites can only operate if their employees have the right to vote in their own countries. Then TikTok would be banned because it does not (/could not) follow the law.