Are you implying that China exerts less control over social media than America?
A non-American buyer could also be a solution, again from my perspective.
There is a very striking example that happened recently. The Israel-Palestine war. What did Tiktok and Reddit do? Tiktok lets people see the atrocities being commited. Reddit on the other hand decided to go full Islamophobic. I literally saw a comment on reddit just now saying we need 500 terrorists shooting immigrants in my country. This would never have been allowed before, but they allow it now.
It's a blatant example of reddit manipulating the debate to achieve foreign policy objectives at the expense of my country.
And now America is using strong-arm tactics to forcefully acquire Tiktok, expanding the control.
Read: EU-region buyer.
The first things I thought is if TikTok gets bought by a Japanese or Russian company. ByteDance probably would try to make a Sino-Japanese geopolitical scene out of it, while having it bought by Russians would raise Russian propaganda eyebrows.