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This is a horrible take. A Chinese company stealing IP is very different from China stealing IP. Google was caught using IP from Sogou for its pinyin IME, but we don't say America stealing IP.

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ByteDance is partially controlled by the government so I don't think your Google analogy is a good one.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-17/beijing-t...

https://qz.com/1788836/targeting-tiktoks-privacy-alone-misse...

Basically every major Chinese company is partially controlled by the Chinese government. (Not trying to detract from your point, just providing context.)

>Sogou for its pinyin IME

What does it mean?

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