When Grant Shapps was appointed as the UK’s defense minister this month, one of the first questions he faced was about his social media use. ”While some countries have taken a lighter touch toward TikTok, the European Commission, European Parliament, and EU Council have all banned TikTok from being used on official devices of parliamentarians and their staff, as have several countries within the bloc, including Belgium and Denmark. TikTok’s situation has echoes of hardware giant Huawei’s travails, after the US began a concerted global campaign to get countries to remove its telecoms equipment from their networks, over espionage concerns