Scholz joins TikTok as US divestment push gathers steam

 Olaf Scholz has become the latest Western leader to join the Chinese-owned social media platform despite widespread security concerns.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has joined a growing list of European and US officials who have opened accounts on TikTok even as political pressure on the Chinese video-sharing app grows.

“I won’t dance, promise,” Scholz said in his first TikTok post on Monday. His chief spokesman Steffen Hebestreit joked at the beginning of Scholz’s current legislative term in 2021 that he would try to make the 65-year-old leader boogie on the platform.