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The company was the focus of bipartisan fury in Washington that was billed as a make-or-break moment for the world’s fastest growing social-media app.

TikTok Australia managing director Lee Hunter said it would not give information to the Chinese government if asked but failed to have an answer when pushed on whether the CCP could simply take it.

TikTok is making efforts to distance itself from the Chinese parent company ByteDance as Canberra weighs a ban on politicians using the video app on government phones.

While Canada and Australia have received similar intelligence that China is interfering at all levels of government, a ...