TikTok is a threat that must end one way or another, says Blinken

The Secretary of State for USA, Anthony Blinkenopined this Thursday that the Chinese application TikTok is a “threat” for the national security of your country that “It must end one way or another”.

The leader of US diplomacy made these statements before a committee of the House of Representatives the same day that the CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chewrequested before another hearing of the US Congress that the application in the country not be vetoed.

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the republican congressman Ken Buck asked Blinken if TikTok is a “threat to the security of USA”, to which the senior official replied: “I think it is. Yeah”.

When the same legislator asked him if the application of Chinese origin should be prohibited in the United States, the foreign minister replied that “It should end one way or another. There are different ways to do it”.

“We, the Administration, and others are facing the challenge of (TikTok) and are taking steps to address it.”, he assured.

The United States has accused China of using TikTok as a spying tool, for which reason it has prohibited downloading the application on government mobile phones, while Congress debates bills to veto it throughout the country.

This same Thursday, the CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, warned congressmen that banning their platform would harm the economy and freedom of expression.

Chew recalled that he is a Singaporean and resides in his country, that TikTok is run by an executive team in the United States and Singaporethat its headquarters are in Los Angeles (USA) and on that Asian island and that it is not available in the Chinese mainland.

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He said he was aware, however, that the fact that his parent company, bytedancehave Chinese founders have raised suspicions about whether their platform could be used or become a tool of China or the communist party.

His response on whether ByteDance has spied on Americans was more ambiguous: “I don’t think spying is the right way to describe it.”.

Source: Elcomercio

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