TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer to shut down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the U.S., four sources said.
I’m saying that they have the ability to ban any freaking thing in their territory. That Huawei is doing well outside of the US is irrelevant. If Huawei’s US division was forced down by the US, that is killing it, and they’re still not American.
That’s not nothing, but still not the be-all and end-all that you seem to want to make it.
Explain further how it isn’t a Chinese company despite its origin and its base of operations. Even if it isn’t, all that’s relevant is that China can influence TikTok into giving them their data for free today.
I’m saying that they have the ability to ban any freaking thing in their territory. That Huawei is doing well outside of the US is irrelevant. If Huawei’s US division was forced down by the US, that is killing it, and they’re still not American.
Explain further how it isn’t a Chinese company despite its origin and its base of operations. Even if it isn’t, all that’s relevant is that China can influence TikTok into giving them their data for free today.