Rubio wants US to block TikTok after Chinese govt takes stake Turkey By Kemal Pasha On Aug 18, 2021 President Joe Biden was called on by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio Tuesday to block short-form video app TikTok in the United States after China took an ownership stake in ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok. The Biden administration in June withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok. “Beijing’s aggressiveness makes clear that the regime sees TikTok as an extension of the party-state, and the U.S. needs to treat it that...