Summary: Congress passed a bill requiring TikTok to be sold to a U.S. company or face a ban, but TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, refuses to sell and may shut down the app instead. The Chinese government prefers to keep TikTok under its control, fearing it could be used to spread anti-China sentiments in the U.S. This situation highlights the struggle between liberal values and authoritarian control in the digital age.
the refusal to sell the app tells us that the Chinese government would rather see TikTok destroyed than see it fall into American hands. (View Highlight)