TikTok fails to shake off authoritarian links to Chinese state

Video-sharing app continues to generate unease over privacy and censorship issuesAt first glance, TikTok is an unusual geopolitical flashpoint. The app, which offers a set of tools that make producing video fun and easy and in turn provides viewers with an endless stream of entertaining sub-minute clips, has more than half a billion users, with the majority aged under 30.It is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance, but unlike peers such as Huawei and ZTE, it has little to do with critical nation