China is fuming over a House vote to force a Chinese tech company to sell TikTok, a social media platform that U.S. officials regard as a data security threat.
“In recent years, though the U.S. has never found any evidence of TikTok posing a threat to the U.S.’s national security, it has never stopped going after TikTok,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Wednesday. “Such practice of resorting to hegemonic moves … sabotages the normal economic and trade order in the world and will eventually backfire on the U.S. itself.”the social media platform.
The bill passed just days after the unveiling of a U.S. Intelligence Community survey of global threats that cast TikTok as a component of China’s growing efforts to replicate the“Beijing’s growing efforts to actively exploit perceived U.S. societal divisions using its online personas move it closer to Moscow’s playbook for influence operations,” the U.S. Intelligence Community report said.
“Because at the end of the day, we must protect the American people from the threat that China poses,” she said while traveling in the Philippines. “It doesn’t matter if those cars are made in Mexico or Beijing.” “Americans need to understand that distinctions that we take for granted in our system between businesses and government, between the businesses and the government itself don’t exist for all practical purposes in China,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told a House panel on Tuesday.
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