You are the confused one (deliberately) , I definitely ment the AP article,as I said.
It's far from neutral and simply China bad fearmongering about China becoming more popular: "Xi has long pushed for his government to promote Chinese soft power abroad, calling on officials to “tell China’s story well”

This comes from the NYU "Center for Global Affairs".
While it's connected to a university and not purely a think tank with little clout, they do the same things and parrot the same narrative the US regime wants.
Not surprising, when they hire these types

For the 5th and last time you did not back up your BS and divert with this weak BS excuse.

so: "further explain how the trump admin lied about the extent of the influence the US holds over TikTok"
is absolute garbage, You explained absolutely nothing.
The reason for this is you are suffering from propaganda, being from the US banana republic where they are in fact submerged in unhinged propaganda.
So you're clearly projecting.
I'm European, at least we have some objective views and can see through your BS and scaremongering about anyone and everyone the US regime doesn't like.

So its clear, you have nothing and failed to justify your slanderous insinuations, which is all they are.