US Certainly Looking at Banning Chinese Social Media Apps, says Mike Pompeo
After India, now US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has indicated that the US is certainly looking at banning Chinese social media apps including TikTok. He said this in an interview on Monday.
This statement came 6 days after the Indian government's action on the Chinese app. A Chinese app like TikTok has also exposed the threat to national security. There is also tension going-on between the US-China on the issue of Coronavirus and Hong Kong.
Indian government's ban on TikTok was right: US
On June 29, amid tension in Ladakh, India had banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok. The government said that user information was under threat through these apps. Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad called the decision a digital strike on China. On the other hand, Pompeo said that India's decision was right.
The United States is the second major market for TikTok outside China. There are currently 4.54 crore TikTok users right now, while there was 3.96 crore till 2019. On the other hand, TikTok in India was growing rapidly. TikTok had 11.93 crore users in India by 2019, nearly 200 million by June this year.
TikTok will be out of Hong Kong market:
China's video sharing app TikTok has said that it will be out of Hong Kong's business in a few days. It has taken this decision after the new security law came into force in Hong Kong. China implemented the new law in Hong Kong from 1 July. There is a provision in this that if someone resorts to social media for protest, action can be taken on the social media company. TikTok, on the other hand, has also been accused of managing content and user data in favor of the Chinese government.
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