“You can’t have the Chinese have an app on 100 million American phones, that is just not okay. So, it’s got to move to American ownership…”
— Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, quoted by Reuters, on TikTok.
“You can’t have the Chinese have an app on 100 million American phones, that is just not okay. So, it’s got to move to American ownership…”
— Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, quoted by Reuters, on TikTok.
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