This past spring, the conversation around TikTok centered on whether the app would be banned in America. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was hauled in front of Congress to testify about his company’s links to China, the government demanded that TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, sell the app or face a ban, and then … nothing. The storm that had been building against TikTok just seemed to fizzle. While Congress was on summer vacation, Forbes technology reporter Emily Baker-White got her hands on a draft deal from last year that was between TikTok and the United States government and shows…