ByteDance makes 77% of its revenue in China. TikTok US is a tiny % of its revenue & likely not even profitable.

Selling off its US asset due to foreign govt pressure would be a national humiliation that would adversely affect Douyin's popularity in China.

ByteDance has huge growth potential ahead in China & most of global south mkt. It is a huge & growing player in social media, eCommerce & AI.

To all the natsec ppl out there, don't pretend you care about the ByteDance shareholders. I bet you've never even looked through ByteDance's detailed earnings report.

India was TikTok's biggest mkt & it got kicked out of there in 2020. Guess what, ByteDance just moved on & now its biggest mkt is Indonesia.

Every Chinese tech company understands that mkt access to Western countries could get cut off. In fact, many of them expect it. And guess what, there are other mkts out there that are growing & welcoming. You are not that special.

So no, of course ByteDance should not sell its US asset & create a new competitor. Did Google sell its China asset when it left China? Should Chinese govt threaten Apple & force Apple to divest its Chinese assets to a local competitor? Or Nvidia? Be real here.

You don't even bother contemplate these points, because you want to put the blame of TikTok getting shutdown to China.

That's fine. Don't spend all day pretending that you care about ByteDance or their (mostly Chinese) shareholders.