Can I call this robbery? If ByteDance refuses to sell their company to any US firm, would the US government further ban it from listing in Google's Play Store, so that no one else on Earth except China can download the app?
You can call it robbery squared... even if US paid $50 bil, that is QE infinity means as dollar collapse by end of year, its worthless anyway...
Once US taste success /blood from this method they will apply it to everything else, next target likely DJI. As you know, all they have to do is list DJI on the entity list, then Apple and Google are forced to delist the DJI Go App, then literally all DJI drones worldwide become useless, DJI brand image tarnished, value prop of its drones nosedive, and this helps US domestic drone industry like GoPro, Karma, Skydio etc