Why Australia won’t ban TikTok before the US does
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The Relationship Between TikTok and the Chinese Communist Party
The question of whether TikTok is a security risk to government workers in Australia really goes back to what the company's relationship to the Chinese Communist Party really is and how close that relationship is. If we look to how TikTok was formed, who was behind it, and what the original intent of the app is, what can we learn about that relationship? Yeah, so a significant figure here is Zhang Yi Ming, who's co-founder of ByteDance in 2012. He became one of China's wealthiest men, well before the age of 40.
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