Time for TikTok to Cut Ties to China

Tiktok’s addictive videos keep its users up late into the evening. But the app’s links to China are causing politicians to lose sleep, too. On March 13th America’s House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app to an owner of another nationality, or else face a ban in America, TikTok’s largest market. Other countries, from Britain and France to Australia, have begun to introduce some restrictions of their own. The world’s most downloaded app, by one measure, may soon start disappearing from screens. To stay on them, TikTok must cut its ties to China.