{"id":17427,"date":"2025-01-23T05:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T04:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/is-tiktok-a-national-security-threat-or-is-the-ban-a-smokescreen-for-superpower-rivalry\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T05:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T04:37:17","slug":"is-tiktok-a-national-security-threat-or-is-the-ban-a-smokescreen-for-superpower-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/is-tiktok-a-national-security-threat-or-is-the-ban-a-smokescreen-for-superpower-rivalry\/","title":{"rendered":"Is TikTok a national security threat \u2013 or is the ban a smokescreen for superpower rivalry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington looks happy for the video app to harvest users\u2019 data \u2013 as long as China does not reap the rewards<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>If the Chinese-owned TikTok is deemed definitively by the US to be a national security threat, it is hard to see how the UK or other western countries could conclude differently.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact that Donald Trump has walked into the White House talking of a reprieve for the video-sharing network, which restored its service in the US after going dark for a day, suggests something simpler is at work \u2013 Trumpian geopolitics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/23\/is-tiktok-a-national-security-threat-or-is-the-ban-a-smokescreen-for-superpower-rivalry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2c0e06c2516bc7d32d8d21013420f9ae55cfab08\/0_43_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=244549ba27ba1aafe29db7bad63b9efb\" title=\"Is TikTok a national security threat \u2013 or is the ban a smokescreen for superpower rivalry?\" \/>Washington looks happy for the video app to harvest users\u2019 data \u2013 as long as China does not reap the rewards<\/p>\n<p>If the Chinese-owned TikTok is deemed definitively by the US to be a national security threat, it is hard to see how the UK or other western countries could conclude differently.<br \/>\nBut the fact that Donald Trump has walked into the White House talking of a reprieve for the video-sharing network, which restored its service in the US after going dark for a day, suggests something simpler is at work \u2013 Trumpian geopolitics. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington looks happy for the video app to harvest users\u2019 data \u2013 as long as China does not reap the rewards If the Chinese-owned TikTok is deemed definitively by the US to be a national security threat, it is hard to see how the UK or other western countries could conclude differently. But the fact &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/is-tiktok-a-national-security-threat-or-is-the-ban-a-smokescreen-for-superpower-rivalry\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is TikTok a national security threat \u2013 or is the ban a smokescreen for superpower rivalry?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}