The EU is doing great. It can pay for loads of stuff with the endless fines American tech companies rack up

I’m posting the same comment in two replies here now, terrible behaviour, but yes exactly this was an attempt to force a sale and get tiktok into American ownership.

It feels very neat that America would think tiktok would ultimately choose the option where it gets more money, but that the Chinese instead choose control.

The theory is the tiktok “ban” was an attempt to force a sale on favourable terms , but tiktok has called the bluff.