TikTok

Democratic President Joe Biden signed legislation in April that could ban TikTok in the U.S., even as his campaign joined in February and has tried to work with influencers.

TikTok has faced pressure across Central Asia, with governments often citing the protection of children to justify restriction. 

In India, the app was banned nearly four years ago. Most users and content creators migrated to other platforms without much trouble.

While the ban seems inevitable amid deepening distrust, removal of TikTok from the U.S. market will not solve the disinformation problem.

Partnering with the Indonesian tech giant will let TikTok regain access to the country’s e-commerce market, while providing the former with much-needed capital.

A new bill threatens the app’s survival and casts a spotlight on the quandary that many private Chinese companies have found themselves in.

Chinese firms, which have established good relations with President Joko Widodo's cabinet, are quietly putting out feelers ahead of the changeover of administration.

The policy is the latest instance in which Jakarta has flexed its regulatory muscles against the big foreign tech firms.

Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil's warning comes two weeks after he blamed TikTok for failing to remove defamatory or misleading content from its platform.

The East Asian countries that escaped the middle income trap did so on the backs of strong private enterprises. China is hamstringing its own corporate giants.

The Chinese-owned short video app has hit a number of recent roadblocks in its bid to expand its Southeast Asian operations.