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\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed that Washington is considering a ban on Chinese social media apps, including the ultra-popular TikTok, apparently inspired by a similar ban in India and Australia\u2019s threat to do the same.
\nTalking to media, Pompeo affirmed \u201cwe\u2019re certainly looking at\u201d banning TikTok and other Chinese apps, following the lead of India, which banned 59 Chinese apps after border skirmishes with Beijing, and Australia, which has threatened to do the same. Americans should download the apps \u201conly if you want your information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d he smirked.
\nWhile acknowledging he \u201c[didn\u2019t] want to get out in front of the president,\u201d the US diplomat nevertheless appeared to threaten 30 million American TikTok users with the withdrawal of their favourite microblogging platform, before attempting to draw a connection between TikTok \u2013 recently found by Apple to be secretly accessing users\u2019 clipboards, along with a plethora of other apps \u2013 and Huawei, US companies\u2019 primary competitor for dominance of the telecommunications sector. Despite frequent accusations from Pompeo and others in the Trump administration, however, Huawei equipment has not been shown to include the dreaded backdoors to Beijing.<\/p>\n
The Indian ban divorced TikTok from its largest market, a relationship parent company ByteDance\u2019s Indian office is reportedly hurrying to mend. A US ban would no doubt be catastrophic as well \u2013 but it might be more disastrous for Washington, as legions of Tiktok-addicted American teenagers who\u2019ve already taken credit for blocking millions from attending one of President Donald Trump\u2019s rallies are handed a big fat new reason to rebel against their government. TLTP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TLTP WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed that Washington is considering a ban on Chinese social media apps, including the ultra-popular TikTok, apparently inspired by a similar ban in India and Australia\u2019s threat to do the same. Talking to media, Pompeo affirmed \u201cwe\u2019re certainly looking at\u201d banning TikTok and other Chinese apps, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n