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Exclusive: China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok's U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut down in the United States, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
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That makes sense I guess. I feel like US is a huge part of TikTok right now.
8% of the userbase is from the US, which is a lot in people's numbers (165 million downloads to date), but looking at it percentage-wise it is not that hard to overcome an eventual deleting or banning of the US from its' users. Maybe it's a good thing for software developers (and other makers) to just skip the US market at all. Not as a boycott, but as a means of logistics and economics: it saves a lot of time and money not to invest in the US. And it prevents political shenanigans like this one.
4% of the world population is American, which leaves 96% of the world open for adventure and entrepreneurship. :-)