The White House is considering putting TikTok on a blacklist that would effectively prevent Americans from using the popular video app
Three people familiar with the debate inside the Trump administration said one proposal was to place ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of the social media app, on the commerce department’s “entity list.”
The administration is conscious that TikTok is popular with the public and so was examining if there is a way to allow people to use the app but with protections to prevent China from accessing private data, the official added. The White House did not comment. It was unclear how the top officials involved in the debate were lining up on the entity list. In his recent memoir, John Bolton, the former national security adviser, said the China team was “badly fractured.” And senior officials are often in the dark about the outcome until Trump makes his decision.
Kevin Wolf, a partner at Akin Gump who led the Commerce Department division that oversees the entity list until 2017, said the Trump administration had been increasingly willing to broaden the way the list was used in policy making. Lewis said using IEEPA would be an easier option because the courts tended to be deferential to the president over legal challenges involving national security. But he said the “most elegant solution” would be to restructure TikTok as part of the CFIUS process. “The administration has all the cards. . . . TikTok can’t resist.”
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