Asia TimesUS lawmakers are expected this week to continue their push to ban the country’s fastest-growing social media platform, TikTok, after the company’s CEO fell short of assuaging concerns about the app’s supposed national security risks. Currently, that is the balance that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has struck – a censored sister app called Douyin is available inside of China’s “great firewall,” where the version of TikTok used by Americans is blocked. It’s unclear how the public would react to a ban, but India’s example suggests it would be a huge win for Meta’s Instagram, which attracted TikTok’s massive Indian user base after the country banned the app in 2020