U.S. government bans on Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok reveal Washington's own insecurities and are an abuse of state power, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday.
The U.S. government "has been overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress other countries' companies," Mao Ning said at a daily briefing. "How unsure of itself can the U.S., the world's top superpower, be to fear a favourite young person's favourite app to such a degree?"
Congress and more than half of U.S. states have so-far banned TikTok from government-issued mobile devices. Washington and Beijing are at odds over myriad issues including trade, computer chips and other technology, national security and Taiwan, along with the discovery of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the U.S. and its shooting down earlier this month.from all government-issued mobile devices.
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