Countdown to TikTok crackdown: Popular app could see U.S. ban in 9 months
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One of the world’s most popular social platforms — wildly popular with young people — risks becoming a high-profile casualty of the cold-war sequel developing between China and the United States. Now a new bill offers the app's Chinese-based parent company two choices.