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Rubio wants Biden to block TikTok after Chinese government takes stake – Netscape Politics

August 18, 2021
Source: netscape.com netscape.com
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08/17/2021 18:49 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Tuesday called on President Joe Biden to block short-form video app TikTok in the United States after China took an ownership stake in a key subsidiary of 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 way," Rubio said Tuesday. (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chris...
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