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    TikTok on the chopping block

    Aug 07, 2020 3 minutes
    By Charlie Campbell/Shanghai
    PHOTOGRAPH BY MANJUNATH KIRAN
    The Brief is reported by Leslie Dickstein, Alejandro de la Garza, Mélissa Godin, Suyin Haynes, Billy Perrigo, Madeline Roache, Josh Rosenberg and Olivia B. Waxman

    IRST THEY WENT AFTER HUAWEI. THEN IT WAS gummy bears singing Adele. TikTok—the social-media platform where primarily Gen Z users share dance routines and zany memes involving crooning fruit candies and the like—has become the latest flash point in the escalating tech war between the U.S. and China, with President Donald Trump threatening on July 31 to ban

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