When ByteDance rebranded the US teen karaoke app Musical.ly it acquired as TikTok in 2018, it was just another short video app for American teens.
Today it is the most downloaded app in the world, proving so popular that it has become a flashpoint in the escalating US-China tech war, which was previously focused on heavy-duty areas such as chips and 5G networks.
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