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There is \u201cno fairness to speak of\u201d in citing national security to reduce the competitive advantage of other countries, a spokesperson of the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday, criticising a U.S. bill to force a TikTok divestiture or ban.<\/p>\n
The measure is the latest in a series of moves in Washington to respond to U.S. national security concerns about China, from connected vehicles to advanced artificial intelligence chips to cranes at U.S. ports.Wednesday\u2019s bill, overwhelmingly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, would give TikTok\u2019s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app, or face a ban.\u201cThe U.S. House of Representatives passing this bill lets the United States stand on the opposite side of the principles of fair competition and international trade rules,\u201d said ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin.\u201cIf so-called national security reasons can be used to wilfully suppress other countries\u2019 superior companies, there would be no fairness to speak of.\u201dChina has persistently railed that the United States overstretches the concept of national security, and Wang has previously said its bullying acts, as he described them, disrupt normal international trade order, and will eventually backfire.\u201cThe U.S. increasing the (serious) handling of this matter lets the world see clearly whether the United States\u2019 so-called rules-based competition is beneficial to the world or is only self-serving,\u201d he added.U.S. legislators have raised fears that TikTok\u2019s U.S. user data could be passed on to China\u2019s government.The fate of TikTok, used by about 170 million Americans, has become a major issue in Washington, where lawmakers have complained their offices have been flooded with calls from TikTok users who oppose the legislation.Wang said the U.S. did not find evidence of TikTok violating national security, but abused state power to go after the company.TikTok\u2019s CEO Shou Zi Chew has said the firm never shared, or received a request to share, U.S. user data with the Chinese government, adding, \u201cNor would TikTok honor such a request if one were ever made.\u201dFollow the
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A spokesperson of the Chinese foreign ministry criticized a U.S. bill aimed at forcing a TikTok divestiture or ban, arguing that using national security as a reason to reduce the competitive advantage of other countries lacks fairness. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill, which would require TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of the app within six months or face a ban. The spokesperson, Wang Wenbin, stated that such actions stand against the principles of fair competition and international trade rules. U.S. legislators have expressed concerns that TikTok’s U.S. user data could be shared with China’s government. TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, has denied any sharing of U.S. user data with the Chinese government or receiving any requests to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[639,486,33,426,3,1610,1873,250,415,187,1874,1004,827,1875,1006,544,380,18],"class_list":["post-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-companies","tag-competition","tag-cyprus","tag-evidence","tag-fairness","tag-google","tag-government","tag-international","tag-national-security","tag-power","tag-security","tag-tiktok","tag-trade","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n