Tiktok is a widely used app in present time with almost 100 million users only from USA. But Washington and China’s city Beijing are not having good terms with each other, this largely effects the fate of Tiktok in USA. According to US government the video app is dangerous for their national security. Donald Trump gave warning to put a ban on it. If it’s not sold to American company.
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Us vs China
Although the ban is postponed by a week but yet the fight is not over. It creates a tension between two superpowers of the world and put relationship between Us and China in danger. Trump has to sign a deal in which Tiktok have to transfer its office and headquarters offering 25,000 jobs to locals. Oracle is able to store and transform tiktok data into its cloud storage. According to reports, Donald Trump approved the deal in concept, saying it would be a great blessing if they agreed and if they don’t that’s alright too. Donald Trump government have fear that highly popular application might be a spying tool from China. Although Tiktok has turned down those statements . The company has proclaimed that its headquarters are located outside Chinese borders it has nothing to do with Chinese law.
Tiktok in USA
ByteDance starts negotiating with the U.S. administration with an aim to explore a deal so that it will allow its app to continue working in the U.S. and the parent company to have a small shares in its working here. Expected owners of Tiktok in USA are Microsoft which appointed Walmart as their business partner , and American company Oracle. The whole matter took a sharp turn as the company have a deadline till middle of September to sell its operations. Tiktok also filed a complain against President Trump. CEO of Tiktok, Vanessa Pappas, requesting Tiktok’ asking fans to support them through Facebook and Instagram.
Trump vs Chinese Apps
This is not the only tech app banned by Trump government. It also put WeChat app inti trouble which provides easy contact between US and Chinese citizens. All this mess highlights the politicized personality of Trump crusade against Tiktok and other Chinese apps.
