> China doesn't allow foreign corporations to operate within their borders

It's not true, just to clarify it.

Many foreign corporations operating in China, only if they:

1. Keep all user data within the border. 2. Cooperate with censorship

TikTok meets the first condition in the U.S., and I think the issue lies with the second condition.

I could be wrong, but I thought you have to operate a subsidiary in China, which is majority Chinese-owned. for example, Azure China is operated by 21Vianet, who also owns all the infrastructure.

Yeah, that's the part 1, all data must be within the border

so Azure in China can only be ran by a Chinese entity

If you look at it from the other side, it's like Tiktok must be hosted by Microsoft/Amazon but not datacenters in China

>China doesn't allow foreign corporations to operate within their borders. why should we?

China is a dictatorship where people have no rights. America was built on the principle that the government shouldn't have the power to tell the common people what to do.

The idea that the US government doesn't have the power to regulate trade, especially with geopolitical adversaries, has never been some bedrock principle of America.

> there is no First Amendment right for RT to be carried on US cable networks.

There might be, but it would be the cable network's first amendment right to carry them, not RT's right to be carried.

The argument in court was kind of backwards, nobody violated TikTok's rights by taking them off the app store, but you could fairly easily argue that Apple and Google's rights were violated by telling them that they can't carry it. That would, presumably, require either Apple or Google to bring a lawsuit though, and they seem to want to play nice with the incoming administration.