The Congressional Hearing was a clown show, but there are hugely material issues of National Security and trade parity to contend with. China is putting itself

The Congressional Hearing was a clown show, but there are hugely material issues of National Security and trade parity to contend with. China is putting itself on a direct 'war footing' path with respect to Taiwan and the likelihood of conflict is worriesome. That conflict will make Ukraine look like a side show, and will involve Japan, Korea, Philippines, Australia, US - and incidentally Vietnam, Singapore, Canada - and everyone will be affected. For example the CCP has made deep inroads in influencing Canadian politics along a number of vectors. Xi's stated policy (and what we can infer from actual behaviour) is that 'all assets are geared towards state objectives) and that will 100% include TikTok - to varying degrees. Even from purely a 'trade parity' perspective, outside countries would simply not be allowed to have the kinds of influence in China that they somehow expect in other states and that there are bunch of conflating factors there as well. And most of that applies to pretty much all Western nations, and frankly, a bunch of others that would be powerless to do anything anyhow. I think the only reasonable solution would be to have TikTok sold off and run separately, from Singapore, US, or any place with commercial, regulatory, judicial transparency etc.. It was hilarious to watch clueless clowns in Congress, but I think that was mostly a populist display for the general population so that the 'creator furor' is tempered to some extent by the headlines they read on CNN, Fox, MSNBC etc..