{"id":9319,"date":"2023-03-17T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T07:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/the-tiktok-wars-why-the-us-and-china-are-feuding-over-the-app\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T07:37:14","slug":"the-tiktok-wars-why-the-us-and-china-are-feuding-over-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/the-tiktok-wars-why-the-us-and-china-are-feuding-over-the-app\/","title":{"rendered":"The TikTok wars \u2013 why the US and China are feuding over the app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US says the extremely popular video-sharing app \u2018screams\u2019 of national security concerns and considers a countrywide ban<\/p>\n<p>TikTok is once again fending off claims that its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, would share user data from its popular video-sharing app with the Chinese government, or push propaganda and misinformation on its behalf.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s foreign ministry on Wednesday accused the US itself of spreading disinformation about TikTok\u2019s potential security risks following a report in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-threatens-to-ban-tiktok-if-chinese-founder-doesnt-sell-ownership-stake-36d7295c\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> that the committee on foreign investment in the US \u2013 part of the treasury department \u2013 was threatening a US ban on the app unless its Chinese owners divest their stake.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/16\/the-tiktok-wars-why-the-us-and-china-are-feuding-over-the-app\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c13a9093392e7b7a2275b9e53d2a83c190e88b94\/0_135_5223_3133\/master\/5223.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=69452a19831e5cf593ba379299eab835\" title=\"The TikTok wars \u2013 why the US and China are feuding over the app\" \/>The US says the extremely popular video-sharing app \u2018screams\u2019 of national security concerns and considers a countrywide ban<br \/>\nTikTok is once again fending off claims that its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, would share user data from its popular video-sharing app with the Chinese government, or push propaganda and misinformation on its behalf.<br \/>\nChina\u2019s foreign ministry on Wednesday accused the US itself of spreading disinformation about TikTok\u2019s potential security risks following a report in the Wall Street Journal that the committee on foreign investment in the US \u2013 part of the treasury department \u2013 was threatening a US ban on the app unless its Chinese owners divest their stake. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US says the extremely popular video-sharing app \u2018screams\u2019 of national security concerns and considers a countrywide ban TikTok is once again fending off claims that its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, would share user data from its popular video-sharing app with the Chinese government, or push propaganda and misinformation on its behalf. China\u2019s foreign ministry &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/the-tiktok-wars-why-the-us-and-china-are-feuding-over-the-app\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The TikTok wars \u2013 why the US and China are feuding over the app<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9320,"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\/9319"}],"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=9319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}