If it's the former, there's not much to see here, move on. Just capitalism at work. If it's the latter, I don't see how any pvt company can compete against an actor with such deep pockets.
When Microsoft did their release on considering acquisition of TikTok, explicitly stating it was after conversation with the POTUS, I never saw it framed as "The USA to acquire TikTok".
We need to be able to have more nuanced headlines because frankly this amount of reduction is hurting more than it's helping in making readers understand the situation. As much as there is issues in the intertwine of corporate leadership and government, the PRC is not quite on the same level as the DPRK.
If Boeing hires a German, it doesn't get framed as "US poaches from Germany", with a subheading of "a US-backed aerospace project" like in this article. They'd just say Boeing.