TikTok is growing, and governments' vigilance against it is also growing

To some extent, TikTok's current predicament is similar to that of Huawei.
Recently, the data security dispute around TikTok, a short video platform, has resurfaced.
Several US lawmakers publicly expressed their concern that TikTok would affect national security.
On July 9, The Economist published a cover story, Who Is Afraid of TikTok, Review the process of TikTok's development and popularity in the world, as well as the difficulties encountered in the commercial competition and geopolitical encirclement and suppression.
Ten years ago, The Economist published a cover story, "Who is Afraid of Huawei?".
To some extent, TikTok's current predicament is similar to that of Huawei.
The Economist reported that TikTok is under increasingly severe regulatory pressure, and governments around the world are worried about TikTok for different reasons, "They worry that users' data may fall into improper control, or the content they watch may be controlled by China.
TikTok has been banned in India, which was once its largest market.
Other countries, including the United States, are considering what they should do next." The following is a cat trying to see what is on the kitchen counter.
First, it stands on its front legs, hops around on its back feet, and then jumps up to see it clearly - but when it sees the tin foil on the counter, it jumps back like an electric shock.
This short 6 second video with more than 40 million views was listed by TikTok as one of the "hottest" videos recently.
Cat video is a common joke on late night TV.
However, hundreds of millions of TikTok short films, including cat videos, are worrying some politicians in Silicon Valley and western countries to sleep.
The growth rate of this application shocked both competitors and regulators.
In just five years, it has entered the first echelon of global social media.
American officials once thought that the field of social media was too closed and hindered competition, so that they filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, the main member of the field.
As TikTok quickly absorbed a large number of users and the accompanying advertising fees, some larger competitors began to imitate it to rewrite their applications.
This turbulence may not end here: TikTok's entry into e-commerce may overturn another industry.
Governments of all countries are concerned about TikTok for different reasons.
As China's first consumer oriented application rising in the West, TikTok is a presence that China can be proud of.
However, precisely because the application belongs to China, politicians in other countries are also deeply upset when they see that TikTok is increasingly catching the attention of their citizens.
They worry that users' data may fall into improper control, or the content they watch may be controlled by China.
TikTok has been banned in India, which was once its largest market.
Other countries, including the United States, are considering what they should do next