The Looming TikTok Ban

1181.525 - 1202.613 Alan Rosenstein

It doesn't matter what the laws in China say. At the end of the day, China is an authoritarian police state. in which the Chinese government and specifically Xi Jinping, the head of China, decides all the important issues. So if Xi Jinping wants ByteDance to sell TikTok, ByteDance will sell TikTok. If Xi Jinping does not want it to, with or without the algorithm, ByteDance will not sell TikTok.