Large corporations aren't *national*, and calling them "multi-national" doesn't really capture their nature which isn't isn't subordinate to any nation, much less multiple ones. They stand outside the framework of nations, acting as power and interest centers entirely in their own right.
The only way to get a large corporation to respect the interests of a nation-state is for that nation-state to compel that by force -- through laws, regulations, and in authoritarian states extrajudicial punishments. The only reason for Americans to be *particularly* concerned about TikTok is that it particularly convenient for the Chinese government to enforce its will on them. In fact if you look at ByteDance's response -- offering to move information centers outside of China, you will see an example of a corporation not identifiying with its host country's interests and trying to circumvent state control.
Now vis-a-vis China, the Xi regime is attempting to exert more control over businesses operating in their countries *which is deterimental to the interests of multi-national corporations operating there*. And in any case foreign social media sites aren't allowed to operate in the country. So we don't have to worry about, say, Meta getting too cozy with Xi; The Xi regime is Meta's *enemy*. But you can bet Meta would sell you to the Chinese government if the regime were more friendly, and even to respond positively to friendly overtures.
One cannot reasonably expect mainland Chinese to have other than a Maoist, nationalist viewpoint because Mao unified China against foreign imperialist opposition.
Chinese people aren't identical, ideological robots, whether you believe that to be the product of race, culture, or authoritarian training. Sure, culture and indoctrination at least may predispose *more* people there to take a Maoist or nationalist viewpoint, but I guarantee you that among 1.4 billion people there are plenty dissidents and freethinkers and people who question the party line. Xi is really reimposing elements of Maoism after a decades long turn away from that, which means he has to purge *even the CCP party ranks* of diversity.
If you couldn't expect any diversity of viewpoint in China, the the CCP would not be so keen on cracking down on dissent. They wouldn't be banging the "Xi Xinping Thought" drum so loudly if there weren't other viewpoints out there that needed to be drowned out.
The idea that Mao "won" because he had some kind of mystically infallible and exclusive insight into the character of Chinese people is a "just so" story -- reasoning that becaue he won he *must* have had some special understanding of China. Not to unduly minimize his perspicacity as a politician, he won beause this opposition -- the KMT -- was really, really bad. Mao was not harnessing some kind of reactionary Chinese impulse to resist an attempt to impose western economic and political liberalism; communism was a modern alternative to a reacdtionary and nationalistic regime whose corruption and incompetence had led the nation to high unemployment rates and hyperinflation.
As the Italians say, "traduttore traditore." I'd translate what that means into Engish but it loses something.
Even aside from the issue of accurate validation,, Trumpâ(TM)s properties are likely already mortgaged to the hilt. Thatâ(TM)s not particular to Trump, itâ(TM)s sensible business practice. Property gives you access to credit, so you take advantage of that credit to obtain money to grow your business. Mortgaging your property is the ordinary profit maximizing thing to do.
But what you canâ(TM)t do is leverage your property *twice*. So even bonafide real estate billionaires donâ(TM)t have access to limitless instant cash. Independent estimates of Trumpâ(TM)s wealth puts it at a little over 2.5 billion. Thereâ(TM)s probably not a billionaire in the world who could scare up almost 20% of his net worth in cash overnight.
Assuming his properties are mortgaged to the max, such a big cash demand could trigger a catastrophic chain reaction where he sells one property, lenders whose loans are secured with that property demand their money back immediately, forcing him to sell another property and so on.
If Trump can somehow turn this IPO into a fair amount of ready cash, that could spell the difference between financial survival and ruin for him . Heâ(TM)s just got to sell his believers in buying in.
Variables don't; constants aren't.