TikTok can not directly withdraw from the United States, but should lay the groundwork for future competition

Beijing News (Reporter Zheng Weibin) The quadrennial presidential election of the United States has entered a critical stage.
Who will be in charge of the White House in the next four years will have a significant impact on global politics, economy, science and technology, as well as China US relations.
Against this background, on August 27, the New Beijing Think Tank held a seminar on "Prospects for the US Election in 2020", inviting a number of well-known experts and scholars to discuss the development and impact of the election.
At the meeting, the globalization of Chinese technology Internet enterprises also became one of the focuses of attention.
In the past few years, ZTE, Huawei and other enterprises have become Chinese enterprises that have been heavily suppressed by the United States.
Recently, byte beating and its overseas products, TikTok, Tencent's WeChat and other applications have also been sanctioned by the Trump government.
Why does such an application cause high tension in the US government? The competition with American counterparts, the factors of American elections and the deterioration of Sino US relations were the basic judgments of the guests present on the difficulties TikTok and others encountered in the United States.
Shen Weixing, Dean of the Law School of Tsinghua University, stressed that TikTok strictly abides by local laws in the United States, including personal privacy protection and data security.
The national security issues mentioned by the United States government should not actually constitute the reason for the United States to impose sanctions on TikTok.
According to Shen Satellite, the three reasons why the US government suppressed TikTok, the scientific and technological development of TikTok is in the forefront of the world, and its advancement has been recognized by the US, so the US is afraid that TikTok will affect the development of its related industries.
Zhong Feiteng, researcher of the Asia Pacific and Global Strategy Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Research Office of Great Power Relations, supplemented the example of Japan in the 1980s.
Zhong Feiteng said that the Japanese acquired a semiconductor enterprise in California at that time, which caused a huge response in the United States.
The United States regards Silicon Valley as its future, so it cannot be controlled by foreigners.
Similarly, Trump may now believe that TikTok has mastered the future industry, so it is necessary to carry out such a strong suppression.
The second is the potential impact of TikTok on American culture and values.
Wu Fei, director of the Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication Research Center of Zhejiang University, said that the US government was afraid that TikTok would become a platform to influence American values, so it was highly alert to it.
Xu Lifan, a columnist and famous commentator, believes that TikTok deconstructs the western narrative system, thus offending American self-esteem and hurting the cultural dignity of the "Anglo Saxon" in the United States.
Therefore, the reason why the US government attaches great importance to TikTok is not that it really cares about the flow of TikTok, but its narrative and expression methods.
In addition, enterprises and products like Byte Beat and TikTok have global influence that Trump and his American counterparts do not want to see.
Therefore, the Trump government continuously suppressed TikTok, while Facebook discredited it.
Liang Yabin, associate professor of the International Strategy Research Institute of the Central Party School, believes that the TikTok incident itself represents that China's best enterprises have been treated unfairly in the United States.
Liang Yabin said that from the perspective of the United States, this is to set an example to others.
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