What TikTok Tells Us About China's Soft Power.

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would require TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or face a ban in the US due to concerns about national security risks and data security. The bill gives ByteDance six months to sell TikTok to a US or friendly country-based company. TikTok has been working with US-based tech company Oracle to address concerns about data protection. However, the bill still needs to pass in the Senate, and privacy experts argue that banning TikTok alone would not solve the larger issue of data privacy. The bill also raises concerns about censorship and the impact on other American tech companies. The Senate's slow legislative process may result in the bill not passing. [Extracted from the article]