USA could perhaps play China's game; ban tiktok, and support a 'local champion' to create an identical US version, let's call it, toktik - it at least sounds more like the poison it is.
Then again, we need to find ways to stop China gaming the world open trade system, forcing the rest of the world to follow Chinese values and become more like China - ie less free.
The US is the one going out of its way to attack countries that don't bend the knee like Iraq and Venezuela. China pays its partners in Africa for their resources. US overthrows governments to steal them and “spread democracy”. Why does US spread democracy to Iraq but not Saudi Arabia, a literal monarchy? (Because US only care about power) The projection of US sins onto China is unreal and lays bare US meddling and hypocrisy.
But IMHO a world 'under' USA's insistence on openness, human-rights, democracy, (and free-flowing oil, etc, of course), is preferable to China's opaque mercantilism and spiteful sensitivity.
My point is that USA is aping those attributes.
We need to stop being dragged into a less-free world.