Their answer would be to make the Chinese sell the US software version to a US company, as they did with TIKTOK US.

They’re caught between raising privacy safeguards (hurting US data brokers like Google) and making sure a foreign company doesn’t have access to American users. Their answer was to force the foreign company to sell their US subsidiary. This is the current playbook.

You will lose more rights and the government will see to it that only US companies can exploit you, though even this is becoming increasingly untenable.