IMO this could be the start of a trend, a blueprint if you will for Chinese companies to operate in the US, including auto, drone, renewables, and perhaps even the likes of Shein and Temu.
As soon as Trump is gone. They will 100% pull the rug and demand full theft of everything you owned
This defeats the whole purpose of the defiance this whole time and trying so hard to protect the valuable proprietary technology!!!!!!
Like the others said TikTok doesn’t have any special technology or algorithms. China needed legal justification to block the sale of TikTok. So technology transfer was the route.
Just like the EV batteries. Europe is going behind the Chinese government negotiation by individually negotiate with Chinese companies to transfer their technology for less EU coercion. China gave them the middle finger and put the batteries on export controls a couple weeks earlier. Companies and corporations do not operate on national interests but on self interests.
If Chinese companies start selling everything they own on coercion and the government does nothing then they are finished