The comments came as TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified in front of US lawmakers amid mounting scrutiny over the app’s ties to Beijing. China’s commerce ministry said Thursday that a forced sale of TikTok would “seriously damage” global investors’ confidence in the United States.
On Thursday, Chew, in his first congressional hearing, sought to provide nuanced answers and tried to assuage lawmakers’ worries about the company and its parent, Beijing-based Bytedance. But he was frequently interrupted and called evasive by lawmakers. After more than five hours of testimony, the lawmakers expressed deep skepticism about his company’s attempts to protect US user data and ease concerns about its ties to China.
The US government can't listen to tiktok, that's the real reason.
Shut down TikTok and delete all the user data. We should not allow any other non US company to dominate the global high tech market
Who has shares in Tiktok? The CCP via fronts?
3rd World War brewing very fast
China should force Apple to sell to a Chinese company too since their phones collect all kinds of data
China? You mean the country owns the app? Rubbish!
Hmmm
Biden better act right or the CCP will stop sending the checks
Everyone should have realized this isn't about information gathering. It is about who gets the information. When the U.S. government negotiates rights to the information this story is dead.
America always a violent one.
Fine, then the US will just block the use of your horrible spy program and can just sit and spin!!
Good work :keep covering China and Russia , get some reporters there
Enough is enough. When will 🇺🇸 ceased bullying 🇨🇳? This is getting overboard
Biden is not going to do anything and everyone knows it. The dumbing down of society is accepted at this point.
It’s not Biden it’s the senate and House who are up in arms, a different part of the US government. Biden is not responsible.
Forced sale? No, this is open robbery. The data has already been stored locally. If you feel it is still unsafe, you can directly disable the software.
Why are they delaying? I mean, TikTokers can just move to Reels or Shorts for comfort.
So ban it... I am pretty sure society will be much better off without the 'tiktok doctors' and influencers on there poisoning the minds of countless people, anyway. This app was a known security threat for a long time, and it's disappointing it took this long to do something
Sounds fair🤷♂️ china is doing the same with US tech companies. Most are now blocked. So dont cry when a nation do the same
Don’t even think about it zuckerberg anti trust regulators will be ON that ass
Facebook in China=Nope. Twitter in China?=Nope. TikTok in the USA?=NOOOOOoooooo!
China will fight back by banning apple
Americans are going to be equally pissed if say Apple is forced to sell its operations in China to a Chinese company.
You must trust the dictator who speaks.
So much for no involvement in a private company lol
Is Tik Tokyo the ONLY app that's NOT headquartered in the USA or NOT owned by a Chinese company?
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Ban it then.
Would seem weird that the Chinese government would have a position on a video app being important. Wonder why they care? Hmmmmm