“The US’ decoupling from China starts [with] killing China’s most competitive companies.
In the process, Washington ignores rules and is unreasonable.”
These are the exact words written, almost in a complaining prose, by the Chinese state-run media Global Times’ editorial just this week, over US President’s recent claims of banning the popular social media App craze TikTok in the US, despite many complaints in and outside the country.
In what is very much a short, 30 seconds-long viral contents creator, the seemingly harmless TikTok app is owned and operated by ByteDance, a company which started out from Beijing.
However, this is not just the President being blindly hateful toward the Asian superpower, as several Congressman have chimed in their opinion regarding how TikTok may have worked as a threat to national security as they export data from civilian users and lay them up to (allegedly) the Chinese government for possible usage.
The company, in response to these allegations, have astutely claimed their data storage is well off the borders, and that Beijing would have no reach over these private information.
By Monday, Trump said he would allow a US company, which was purported to be Microsoft, to buy up TikTok to quell off dissent. He did put a caveat, saying that the future buyer in question would have to supply “substantial amount of money” coming to the US Treasury.
The state-run newspaper China Daily has denounced the movement as a “smash and grab” raid by the US government. “The US administration’s bullying of Chinese tech companies stems from data being the new source of wealth and its zero-sum vision of ‘American first,'” the English-language newspaper wrote in an editorial Monday. “China will by no means accept the ‘theft’ of a Chinese technology company.”
“China does not actually ban American websites or software — it only requires them to ‘be Chinese’ as they operate in China,” wrote Hu Xijin, the editor in chief of the Global Times, in a post on the Chinese social media website Weibo.
“TikTok fully complies with US laws … but the US government still wants to ban it. The US approach is much more determined and tough compared to the Chinese approach,” he added.
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