“Next Congress, we’re probably going to see more China hawks, and I think TikTok is going to be part of that campaign.” Brendan Carr, a Republican who was nominated to the Federal Communications Commission by Trump, added fuel to the TikTok criticism when he told Axios in an interview Tuesday that he wants to see the app banned, and although the FCC can’t do so on its own, his comments reflected the ongoing interest in the idea.Megan Stifel, a former Justice Department national security official, said she thinks the most likely outcome of the debate is a deal between TikTok and the government, not a ban.“As believers in democracy, we want to be able to keep this medium open, but we don’t want this under-the-radar data-acquisition happening,” said Stifel, the chief strategy officer for the Institute for Security and Technology, a think tank.Krach, a 65-year-old former tech executive, left the State Department last year and is now making a full-time job out of countering TikTok and Chinese tech threats in general.Last month, Krach interviewed Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on the subject in a live-streamed event with the Atlantic Council, and Politico has called him a “regular guest in Biden circles,” despite his work for Trump."