Trade warAs US scrutiny mounts, is TikTok set to be the next Huawei?
Washington weighs adding social media app to same trade blacklist as tech titan
TikTok has come under fire in the U.S. due to concerns about user privacy. © Reuters
YIFAN YU and COCO LIU, Nikkei staff writers
PALO ALTO, U.S./HONG KONG -- Last year, tech titan Huawei found itself at the center of the trade war and the target of an intensifying U.S. crackdown. Now, Washington's scrutiny has turned to another Chinese tech company: the wildly popular video-sharing app TikTok.