The whole thing also smells like economic warfare.
America has long been an offender in using its hegemony to suppress foreign businesses.
The way of the Trump administration coercing and robbing a Chinese star company... should be sending shudders among non-American business community.
The more governments interfere with the economy ... the more endangered international trade becomes.
The U.S. seeks its own interests in a hegemonic way, and attempts to maintain its technological hegemony under the guise of cyber security.
The Chinese Communist Party’s move to regulate internet companies is alarming.
This is the brutal undertaking of a rogue government, another act put on by Washington to uphold American hegemony.
U.S. president’s actions against Chinese tech companies are not just misguided but also self-defeating.
If the U.S. did have legitimate concerns about TikTok posing a threat to privacy or national security, it could have handled matters very differently.
The so-called "national security" is merely a shameless excuse used to destroy China's most successful globalized internet company.
Since Delhi’s announcement banning TikTok and other Chinese apps in June, there has been talk of similar actions by Washington.