The plain and simple fact is, if China doesn't allow Western social media platforms to operate within China, then Western countries are well within their rights to restrict Chinese access to Western markets.
American companies do work with EU regulators, even if conflicts happen at the end of the day, and vice versa with European companies that wish to operate in the US (eg. Protonmail)
The TikTok divestment bill is basically an attempt to build the precedent needed to give the DoC the power to force divestment by Chinese firms under national security guidelines, and the primary reason why ByteDance is fighting this in court instead of selling for a massive profit.
> The plain and simple fact is, if China doesn't allow Western social media platforms to operate within China, then Western countries are well within their rights to restrict Chinese access to Western markets.
Reciprocity is the primary principle of modern trade [0].
Negotiations over reciprocity have happened for decades, but the PRC has never actually complied, unlike most other countries. At some point, the shoe does drop.
> So the USA should model itself on China?
Every country has the ability to use this kind of power. Most countries will tend to negotiate and compromise, but China has increasingly stopped doing this under the Xi administration.
your argument is mostly bullshit and i believe you're fully aware.
there's no European social network. or large data collection syndicate. it's only US. and tiktok offset that status quo.
name one EU entity that collects as much data as the number 100 on the usa list, which is something like onStar. there isn't, which makes all the argument of global fair play a joke.
a joke which you highlight by citing protonmail which is a very famous landmark case where the usa made it very clear it will act on the limits of any agreement it can with borderline legality to keep the status quo intact.
so when i say it's bs and you know it, i mean you are either in DC doing your job, or so often around them you internalized the talking point.
American companies do work with EU regulators, even if conflicts happen at the end of the day, and vice versa with European companies that wish to operate in the US (eg. Protonmail)
The TikTok divestment bill is basically an attempt to build the precedent needed to give the DoC the power to force divestment by Chinese firms under national security guidelines, and the primary reason why ByteDance is fighting this in court instead of selling for a massive profit.