ByteDance is a private profit-maximising company. What would make most financial sense to them now?
Leave the profitable US market and continue with less revenue
Sell everything at fire sale prices to oligarchs connected to the US regime
Somehow split into a TikTok for the free world and one for Burgerland and just sell the latter to the US oligarchs, thereby exposing their algorithms to the yanks.
And is it likely that the Chinese government would be intervening to get one outcome over another?