It is literally the job of the American government to protect American jobs, yes only American jobs should matter to the American government, just as China was correct to build out their own tech platforms as to create these jobs within their own country rather than being taken advantage of by the US. For far too long, the US government has favored private capital over building up domestic enterprises, but a tik tok ban alongside aspects of the various trade wars of the past few years are good. It was a key piece of Sanders platform to end PNTR and to protect American industry in this exact way.

And as I've said before we are not talking about Huawei at all and I think what happened there was completely unhinged. American capital has played a considerable role in the financing of bytedance so any damage a tiktok ban does to them hurts the American venture capital sector anyways.

I'm sorry that I view the status quo as set by the devos types that run the world trade organization as being a fundemental threat to the advancement of working class interests. There's a reason why Xi goes to speak at davos and talks about the dangers of populism in its desire to roll back aspects of free trade.