This keeps them on the platform for longer and more frequently, which is good for advertisers and therefore also good for TikTok's advertising revenue. It added that it had removed more than 100 comments from Ms Hartley's video, which it said was a small proportion of the number that had been left. At first glance, the parallels are striking. Chairman Mao, as he was known, was the defining political figure of 20th Century China. He ran the Communist Party - and the country - from the republic's founding in 1949 until the day he died in 1976. No other Chinese leader has since come close. Until now. irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru They believe it indicates an "if we can't have it, no-one can" approach. Its creator Emmeline Hartley says she believes TikTok's algorithms are driving more hate towards the film. But Xi's policies are only creating the hostile world he claims he is defending against, believes Susan Shirk, a China expert in former US president Bill Clinton's administration. At the end of May the hardliners won. Early on the morning of June 4, the tanks rolled in. The massacre at Tiananmen Square ended debate about political reform. Instead, the Communist Party turned to economic reform.