TikTok’s Digital Drama At Forefront Of A New Cold War – Analysis

By Marina Yue Zhang and Wanning Sun

While Western media outlets seem to have been obsessed with the unexpected launch of DeepSeek on 20 January, the controversy surrounding TikTok has not gone away.

TikTok faced a near-death experience in January 2025 after the US Supreme Court upheld bipartisan legislation to ban the...