Most simple answer: Tencent and theres really not much excuse you could counter with when tackled Mainland conglomerates
its just Tencent, simple.
The other way is everyone also gets 4 for fairness (say, if China never has its own league and bundled into APAC, you have option of either kill SEA just like Valve did with 2016-2017 CS or have China stuck in CrossFire that is a game from 15+ years ago (no, CS is not the majority in China) forever
The long term is that I believe China would be a scary region for the other version of VALORANT that currently is in testing, and its not the one with controller
but as for the current term is simply: Tencent, China as a whole & its Marketing/Business approach
Funny take: Could said the same with things like PCS (idc about my region not playing league), LCS