Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the leading Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged President Joe Biden to address concerns posed by popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok. “I encourage the Biden admin to stick to its concerns about CCP [Chinese Communist Party] social media companies like TikTok, which put our personal data & nat’l security at risk,” McCaul stated via Twitter on Jan. 23. The lawmaker pointed to Biden’s remarks made during a campaign stop in Minnesota last year. On Sept. 18, 2020, Biden said that TikTok was a “matter of genuine concern,” given the app’s popularity in the United States and the potential for China to access U.S. user data. He also said that, if elected president, he would get cyber experts to “go into it deeply” to get the “best solutions” to deal with the risks associated with the app. In August last year, former President Donald Trump …