Microsoft, Apple, Tesla are doing extremely well in China making hundreds of billions. Tesla even got free land and loans, aka Chinese government subsides.

Name a few Chinese tech companies doing the same in the US? Maybe you are suggesting that Chinese should ban Tesla, Apple and Microsoft as well?

Yes, but under China's strict rules about doing business there; government oversight, Chinese senior management, party representative, etc.

I mean if Tiktok did the same thing in the US there probably would be less of an issue, but they are unwilling to allow the same restrictions / oversight as the US companies are subjecting themselves to in China.

probably because China is a larger market? for example, how many cars are sold in the US? it is a relatively small market compared to the Chinese market.

Think often-mentioned tarifs. It's per sector. In this case, facebook, google, twitter/x are banned, thus tiktok gets banned too. That's how gvt operates; steel for steel, cars for cars, social media for social media... Aside examples of how its actually to own and operate a business in china vastly different than US (local partner with a significant share, board control, oversight..).

> This is quid pro quo

do you mean "tit for tat" or something similar?