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Can, practically speaking, European governments enforce GDPR with ByteDance?

Yes. ByteDance does business in Europe and therefore is subject to EU law.

> ByteDance does business in Europe and therefore is subject to EU law

Legally, yes. Practically, I’m not sure the EU could block a major Chinese app from its market for fear of retaliation.

They just have to give it a massive fine. Then they can block it for failure to pay.

In practice they can't even be bothered to enforce it on EU and US companies so this is a lost cause.