PALO ALTO, California -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would ban TikTok in the country unless its ties with Chinese parent company ByteDance are cut within six months.
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TikTok sell or ban bill passes U.S. House despite Trump opposition
Beijing said a forced divesture from ByteDance will "come back to bite" U.S.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump previously sought to ban TikTok and has branded the app a national security threat. Now he opposes a ban and says that "there's a lot of good and there's a lot of bad with TikTok." (Nikkei montage/Source photos by AP and Reuters)
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