TikTok is at the heart of a wild geopolitical fight. Here's what's going on.

Peter Summers - WPA Pool/Getty Images, Pompeo said Chinese software companies including TikTok"are feeding data directly to the Chinese Communist Party, their national security apparatus."

Microsoft publicly announced on Sunday it was resuming talks to buy parts of TikTok after its CEO spoke personally with Donald Trump. Any potential acquisition will be overseen by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States . One part of the announcement suggests a deal would focus on who owns the data of TikTok users in these markets and where it's stored. As Microsoft wrote:"This new structure would build on the experience TikTok users currently love, while adding world-class security, privacy, and digital safety protections. The operating model for the service would be built to ensure transparency to users as well as appropriate security oversight by governments in these countries.

His preference is instead for a spinoff that would enable TikTok to operate independently, and in the US.

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