one way or another, TikTok would be part of a historic moment, a first ever for PRC also US. 2 points come to mind. one is the warnings and ban talks from US gov could actually boost popularity of TikTok in west given how the defiant nature of US people are (thou usually in a good way). the other is I doubt CCP really has leveraged TikTok in any way; they could but truth be told if you look at pro-CCP Youtubers and those millions pro-CCP Twitter bots you know TikTok is just one of million ways that CCP could exploit. In terms of "people's war" or "united front", US is light years behind CCP.