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Rubio wants Biden to block TikTok after being funded by the Chinese government

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August 17, 2021 Washington (Reuters) – Republican Senator Marco Rubio gives President Joe Biden a short-form video in the United States on Tuesday after China takes ownership of a major subsidiary of Beijing-based TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. Asked to block the app TikTok. In June, the Biden administration withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok. “Beijing’s aggression has revealed that the administration sees TikTok as an extension of the one-party system, and the United States needs to treat it that way,” Rubio said on Tuesday. (Report by David Shepardson; Edited by Chris…

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