Former President Donald Trump was also not in favor of closing TikTok because it would make Facebook “bigger”
As the United States moves to legally ban TikTok nationwide amid House passage of a bill, China issued a warning over the ban on the ByteDance-owned platform saying it “comes back to bite” .
The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday seeking to ban the video app. In the second phase, the bill will now go to the Senate for a vote.
AFP reported on Wednesday quoting China's Foreign Ministry as saying: “Although the United States has never found evidence that TikTok threatens the national security of the United States, it has not stopped cracking down on TikTok.”
If the ban is imposed, the app will be removed from all app stores in the country unless parent company ByteDance sells its ownership.
“This kind of bullying behavior that cannot win in fair competition disrupts the normal business activity of companies, damages the confidence of international investors in the investment environment and damages the normal international economic and trade order,” the spokesperson said. Wang Webin.
“In the end, this will inevitably affect the United States itself,” Wang continued.
On Monday, former US President Donald Trump was also not in favor of shutting down TikTok because it would make Facebook “bigger”, calling Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook the “enemy of the people”.
Lawmakers in the US Congress are considering implementing measures that would cause ByteDance to sell TikTok by September 30.
The 77-year-old said NBC News Monday: “Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people.”
While talking about the security associated with the app, he said, “There are a lot of good things and a lot of bad things on the social media platform.”
“There are a lot of people on TikTok who love it. There are a lot of little kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it,” Donald Trump added.
The US intelligence community expressed concern about the platforms used against the country's democracy and leadership.
On Monday, a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence wrote that TikTok accounts from the Chinese government's propaganda arm “allegedly targeted candidates from both political parties during the 2022 U.S. midterm election cycle.”
