Wait, is TikTok really Chinese?

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mire
The future of TikTok is mired in uncertainty in the United State after the House of Representatives passed a bill last week which could ultimately lead to the wildly popular video app being banned.
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(verb) stuck in a mud
sink - chìm trong
grill
Tiktok has never operated in mainland of China, a fact that its Singaporean CEO, Show Chew, has repeatedly touted when grilled by American officials.
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(verb) to ask somebody a lot of questions about their ideas, actions... often in an unpleasant way.
pull out
Tiktok has never existed in mainland China, though the app was available in Hongkong until July 2020, when it pulled out shortly after Beijing imposed a controversial national security law in the city.
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(phrasal verb) to move away from something
= withdraw
hand the reins
In 2021, Zhang announced he would step down as CEO of ByteDance and handed the reins to Liang.
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(v+noun) giao quyền kiểm soát
emphatically
Chew has emphatically told Congress that ByteDance is not owned or controlled by The Chinese Government.
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(adv) in a forceful way
nhấn mạnh
compel
ByteDance is legally compelled to establish an in-house Communist Party committee composed of employees who are party members.
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(verb) = enforce, force

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