On April 23rd the Senate approved a measure to crack down on “foreign adversary controlled applications”, including TikTok, as part of a bill approving military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Mr Biden has already said he will sign the bill into law, whatever the feelings of his 300,000 followers, or TikTok’s 170m American users.The law will give ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, up to nine months to sell to a non-Chinese owner.China’s government, which owns a stake in ByteDance, has indicated that it does not want to part with TikTok. It has classified the app’s recommendation algorithm as a sensitive technology, whose export would need official approval. Can China Allow TikTok to be sold to America ?
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