I heard several talking heads in the media saying if TikTok isn't sold to an American company, it proves China is using it to spy on Americans because it's so valuable for China in collecting information that China doesn't care about the money from the sale. It shows you how important it is for the US to control it not ban it. It's like their threat to cancel China. It's all about forcing China to surrender not leave it behind for the world to ignore. The only way China can appease idiot US politicians is by ultimately allowing unrestricted access to China in everything meaning the US and the West have control over China because that's the only way China can be trusted. That's what's it's all leading up to.
I've said this before that Americans contrary to what they say they value, they want to control communication between people. They want English only because they want to know what people are saying. They don't like Huawei because it's about communication technology they don't control. They hate the Xi-Putin meeting and the Saudi-Iran deal deal because they weren't a part of it knowing what was going on and didn't have a say. They tell black people Asians are racist and then tell Asians blacks are the ones behind anti-Asian violence in the US. They don't want anyone communicating with one another without their permission and their involvement.