The U.S is contemplating banning Chinese social media apps including TikTok. Is this the end of Chinese products?
Secretary of state Mike Pompeo declared late on Monday that the United States is "certainly looking at" banning Chinese social media applications, including TikTok. "I don't want to get out in front of President Donald Trump, but it's something we're looking at," Pompeo stated in an interview with an American news channel.
The app, which is not accessible in China, has attempted to distance itself from its Chinese origins to advance to a global public and has emphasized its independence from China. Pompeo's statements also come between rising US-China pressures over the treatment of the coronavirus outbreak, China's actions in Hong Kong, and a nearly two-year trade war.
Meanwhile, the short-video distribution platform announced it will quit the Hong Kong market within days as other technology corporations including Facebook Inc have ceased processing government requests for user data in the area. TikTok owned by China-based ByteDance has determined to quit the region following China's establishment of a sweeping new national security law for the semi-autonomous city.
The company, now governed by former Walt Disney Co executive Kevin Mayer, has stated in the past that the app's user information is not saved in China. Last week India banned 59, mainly Chinese, mobile applications including TikTok and Tencent’s WeChat, in its greatest move yet targeting China in the online space after the border catastrophe erupted last month. The move has possibly sunk huge Chinese businesses’ expansion plans for the South Asian market.
Chinese companies’ existing and prepared investments in India reach more than $26 billion, research group Brookings stated in March.
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