The US House and Senate are considering bills that would give the federal government’s executive branch the power to ban TikTok, a popular video-sharing app, from phones across the country.
But will that ban ever come to pass? It remains unclear, but growing in likelihood as the issue is mired in both domestic and international politics and comes at a time when US-China relations are at their most tenuous point in recent memory. China’s Communist Party continues to express frequent and growing anger over US delegations to the island of Taiwan, which considers itself its own independent nation while Beijing (and many countries, at least officially) consider it to be part of China.
