Fight for TikTok: China demands that the US not open the `Pandora`s box` or it will suffer consequences

The TikTok case is the latest episode of the conflict between China and the United States, which has gone from the commercial to the technological plane.Photo: Reuters. EFE.- China described today as

EFE.- China described today as "pure manipulation" the United States campaign against the application of short videos TikTok, from the Chinese company ByteDance, and warned Washington not to open the "Pandora`s box" or, otherwise, "Will suffer the consequences."

Chinese Foreign spokesman Wang Wenbin said in his daily press conference that it is "customary for the United States to use its state power to violently attack companies from other countries."

In his opinion, "if this Washington error is reproduced, any country will be able to adopt similar measures against any American company based on national security."

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“The United States must not open Pandora`s box; otherwise, they will suffer the consequences ”, he warned.

US President Donald Trump on Monday gave ByteDance until September 15 for TikTok to go to US capital or face its ban from operating in the country for national security reasons.

In addition, he assured that the Treasury Department should "receive a lot of money" from the sale operation, without specifying in what concept or how it would be carried out.

"I do not care if it is Microsoft or another large company, a safe company, a very American company has to buy it," said the president.

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TikTok, which in the US has more than 80 million users, is one of the social networks that has grown the most in recent years in the country, where it has become the main entertainment for many teenagers and a marketing channel for important celebrities .

The Trump Administration, as well as important Democratic congressmen, assure that the widespread use of TikTok puts the privacy of American data and national security at risk, since they maintain that the application is exposed, through ByteDance, to instructions and Chinese government intervention.

The founder and CEO of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, showed in a letter to his employees his disagreement with the imposition of Washington to sell its US subsidiary and assured that “they have always been committed to protecting user data and maintaining neutrality and transparency of TikTok ”.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman assured today that companies carry out commercial activities in the US according to market principles and international rules, complying with US laws, and described the actions of the Trump administration as "political manipulation".

Publication Date: 2020-08-06

Source: Forbes mexico