The Digital War Is Increasingly Fierce
After a series of
historical retaliation against the U.S.-China diplomacy, such as the closure of
each other's consulate, the relationship between the two superpowers has not
cooled down and tended to increase tension in the confrontation early in the
digital world.
Washington is gearing up to
take specific action against Chinese software companies that are seen
as a "US national security threat" like TikTok and WeChat.
US Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo revealed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is about to "strike
a decisive blow" to not only China's tech giants, such as two social networks
with billions of users, TikTok and WeChat. Besides, a series of other
software companies will be "touched" by the US if accused of
providing data directly to China, posing a security threat to the US.
According to Washington,
sensitive and personal data of hundreds of millions of users in the US such as
facial recognition, home address and contact phone numbers, have been collected
by Chinese software for several years by the White House boss said that
this situation lasted long enough "was enough" and need to be stopped
early.
Specifically, President
Donald Trump announced that he would ban TikTok door in the US despite the
Chinese short video sharing application pledging to keep user data
confidential. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also confirmed the
decisive move, citing information that tens of millions of US users are at risk
of being sent back to China for intelligence operations.
So after Huawei, another
big Chinese tech company is facing a scenario that has been cornered by US
authorities. TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, recently agreed to sell
all its stake in the application to Microsoft, through which TikTok will become
a 100% US company and avoid President Donald Trump's ban. However, with
the current context of US-China relations being at the bottom, analysts are
skeptical of the possibility of success of this "escape body".
Earlier, the Homeland
Security Committee and the Senate government on July 22 approved a bill banning
U.S. employees and government officials from using TikTok, paving the way for
stronger steps toward application. of China. TikTok currently has about 1
billion users worldwide, including more than 26 million users in the US.
Washington's ongoing
pressure on Chinese-rich software and technology companies such as TikTok has
been cited as being "destabilizing America's national
security". However, according to analysts this is not the only cause
but also because TikTok is emerging as a direct competitor to the US technology
giants such as Facebook and Google.
Therefore, the deadly
American strikes against Huawei before or hanging on TikTok's head are now just
the tip of the iceberg in the fierce US-China digital war. The future of
the world belongs to digital transformation, so the technological confrontation
between the two great powers of the United States and China is
inevitable. Meanwhile, global nations and businesses cannot stand out but
will be caught up in this digital war because of the choice of
faction to survive.
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