It's not only an innovative app created by the Chinese people, but also an attempt at freely breathing under the tight grip of the US. TikTok has grown up under American technological hegemony and digital tyranny. This is the reason why Washington dares to be so outrageous and vicious. The US has monopolized the basic businesses of the global internet, and it's difficult for any innovation to bypass the fundamental platform controlled by the US. European company Alstom was once sanctioned by the US as it exerted huge competitive pressure on its US counterparts. Then the US imposed punitive 100-percent tariffs on imported Japanese semiconductors under the excuses of anti-dumping, anti-investment and anti-takeover, which struck a fatal blow to Japan's semiconductor technology. In the 1980s, the rapid rise of Japan's semiconductor industry dealt a heavy blow to the US industry. Should a European, Japanese or Indian company achieve TikTok's status, it will suffer what TikTok is going through, and must die.
The world should not keep silent or act as an onlooker. The so-called "national security" is merely a shameless excuse used to destroy China's most successful globalized internet company. The Trump administration has displayed its ugly face that prevents any non-US company to break the US technological hegemony. This will prevent TikTok from reaching new users, leading the company to decline. The executive orders targeting the Chinese companies take effect in 45 days.Īccording to some legal experts, the US government will be able to order Apple and Google to remove all products owned by ByteDance from their app stores around the world based on the executive orders. Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, saying Chinese-developed apps, especially TikTok that is widely used in the US, "threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the US." He banned transactions by any person or property subject to US jurisdiction with TikTok's parent company ByteDance, and any transaction related to WeChat with Tencent. The crisis facing TikTok is no longer just a question of whether to sell its business in North America, but has evolved into whether the company can maintain its global business.
Illustration: Liu Rui/GTUS President Donald Trump on Thursday tightened the rope around Chinese company TikTok's neck by issuing executive orders.
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