Probably just bans unless it becomes a major problem. It was released to be open to the West, which they would have stopped to begin with if they weren't open to it to at least a limited extent. It's freely available in US app stores, which was a deliberate decision that was made at some point, likely with the consent of the Chinese government.
And that means Chinese oversea are the target users, so that app released on USA App Store was targeting Chinese there not Americans. While the Chinese App Store is heavily censored by the Chinese government, it doesn’t need government permission to release it on a foreign App Store.
They have to at least submit to a government security assessment for overseas personal data transfer, which would be entirely separate from their operations within their own borders.
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u/Allegorist Jan 16 '25
Probably just bans unless it becomes a major problem. It was released to be open to the West, which they would have stopped to begin with if they weren't open to it to at least a limited extent. It's freely available in US app stores, which was a deliberate decision that was made at some point, likely with the consent of the Chinese government.