Is TikTok parent company ByteDance a Chinese agent?

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TikTok’s argument that American users’ data is safe because it’s stored outside China is not convincing. Regardless of whether ByteDance has formal ties with the Chinese Communist Party, there will be the tacit understanding that the management is working for two bosses: the investors and their political overseers who represent the party A person arrives at the offices of Tik Tok after the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of the short-video app or face a ban, in Culver City, California, US. File...