TikTok will close in the United States on 15 September “unless Microsoft or another company to be able to buy it and find an agreement”, according to his boss.
China has accused Tuesday the United States from engaging in a “intimidation, pure and simple,” after Donald Trump ordered the sale by mid-September of the very popular social network TikTok, property of the chinese ByteDance.
TikTok will close in the United States on 15 September “unless Microsoft or another company to be able to buy it and find an agreement,” announced Monday the u.s. president about the application that has about a billion users in the world, mainly teenagers.
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In a context of political tensions and trade increasing with China, Washington accuses since months the platform to be used by the information chinese, for monitoring purposes.
Washington is in the process of opening “Pandora’s box”
Asked about the announcement of Donald Trump, a spokesman for the chinese diplomatic, Wang Wenbin, has accused the United States to take it regularly to foreign companies by abusing the concept of national security.
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“It goes against the principles of the market economy and principles of openness, transparency and non-discrimination of the WTO”, he launched to the press. “This is intimidation, pure and simple. China is firmly opposed to it”.
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Without going so far as to announce retaliatory measures, Wenbin Wang felt that Washington was in the process of opening “Pandora’s box” with its actions aimed at foreign companies. “If everyone in the world mimics the United States, any country may take similar measures against american companies in the name of national security”, he warned.
