The US battle against the short-video sharing app TikTok hotted up last week when the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass a Bill to force the app’s divestment from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
Called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, the Bill’s wording is specifically focused on TikTok and ByteDance. It makes no reference to China, only to “foreign adversaries”.
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