Rubio wants Biden to block TikTok after the Chinese government invests in a subsidiary of the parent company


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Republican Senator Marco Rubio urged [President Joe Biden](//www.foxbusiness.com/category/joe-biden) After China took ownership of a major subsidiary of Beijing-based TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, it blocked the short-form video app TikTok in the United States on Tuesday. The Biden administration in June was a series [Trump era](//www.foxbusiness.com/category/donald-trump) Executive order trying to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok. [Click here to get your FOX business on the go](//foxbusiness.onelink.me/Zkcx?pid=AppArticleLink&af_dp=foxbusinesssaf%3A%2F%2F&af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxbusiness.com%2Fapps-products) “Beijing’s aggression has revealed that the administration sees TikTok as an extension of the one-party system, and the United States needs to treat it that way,” Rubio said in a statement. “We also need...