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Is TikTok’s parent company an agent of the Chinese state? In China Inc., it’s a little more complicated

By Shaomin Li, Eminent Scholar and Professor of International Business, Old Dominion University

Does the Chinese government have officials inside TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, pulling the strings? And does the storing of data from the popular social media app outside of China protect Americans?

These questions appear to dominate the current thinking in the U.S. over whether to ban TikTok if its owner, Chinese technology giant ByteDance, refuses to sell the…

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