Uncertainty continues to dog the sale of TikTok, the social media app owned by Chinese media company ByteDance, which has become a pawn in a geopolitical struggle between the US and China.
US President Donald Trump ordered that the US arm of TikTok be sold in August, but China’s government has thrown a spanner in the works by designating some of TikTok’s key technologies subject to export controls...
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