Yellen Is Pressed on TikTok’s China Connections by GOP’s Hawley
- US should ‘require TikTok to sever all ties’ to China: Hawley
- TikTok says it will ‘satisfy all national security concerns’
Janet Yellen
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The US government should force a separation between TikTok Inc. and its parent company over concerns about Chinese government access to US user data, a Republican senator told Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in a letter following testimony from the company’s chief operating officer.
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote to Yellen urging her to require TikTok to cut all ties with Chinese companies and to force Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. to divest the popular video-sharing app.