For others who don’t get why this argument is complete bogus, there is a big difference between tiktok not featuring a video, and outright removing it. Just because someone wants want to have their happy place doesn’t mean sensorship is needed.
Besides, this video was trending, so apparently a lot of people wanted to see it.
I am not pro-anything and I did not give a hint about my opinion pro/contra china, I think the reason you assume this is on your side.
It is right that TikTok could also hide the video from everyone who does not want to see it. Maybe they deleted it completely because they failed to know who does not want to see it. They should work on this behaviour, but I can understand that they choose this way if the time to react is limited because the video already got trending.