Nazak Nikakhtar served in the Commerce Department during the Trump administration. She was an assistant secretary for industry and analysis in the Department's International Trade Administration and also served as an undersecretary for the Bureau of Industry and Security. In those positions, she helped shape U.S. trade policy toward China and led the Commerce Department's work with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Now, as a lawyer with Washington, D.C. firm Wiley Rein, she chairs the national security practice, advising government agencies and private companies, while monitoring U.S. efforts to regulate Chinese technology companies, including TikTok. Nikakhtar spoke to The Wire China about the legal paths that could result in a TikTok ban or sale. (TikTok has maintained that it does not store user data in China and is not influenced by the Chinese government, and it is working with American authorities on a mitigation plan.)
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