Hunting TikTok, an ugly game of extortion

Why is CCTV News, a short video social software popular with global users, especially young users, forced to sell or banned? Is this the choice TikTok must accept when facing the American market? Is a software really dangerous to the national security of the United States? How will TikTok choose and respond to the storm? TikTok in the storm is either banned or forced to be sold.
Is this an option that TikTok must accept in the United States? "Overall ban, who did TikTok offend?" This past weekend, many people were asking similar questions.
Just last Friday, US President Trump made such a threat.
President Trump of the United States: We are paying attention to TikTok.
We may disable TikTok.
We may also take other measures.
There are many options, but many things are in progress, so we will wait for what happens next.
Trump told reporters that TikTok would be prohibited from operating in the United States, which would be implemented as early as August 1, and hinted that he would not support American companies to acquire TikTok.
According to American media reports, such comments have caused Microsoft and TikTok's parent company to jump the recent ongoing acquisition negotiations and have to reach an impasse.
At the same time, TikTok's general manager in the United States also said on August 1 that "TikTok will not leave".
Vanessa Papas, General Manager of TikTok USA: I want to thank millions of American users who use TikTok every day for bringing creativity and happiness to our daily life.
We feel your support.
We want to say thank you.
We will not go anywhere.
Subsequently, US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, in an interview with the media on August 2, said that the US Foreign Investment Commission, which he chaired, unanimously agreed after reviewing TikTok's business that TikTok could not maintain its current form because it might leak information from 100 million US users.
Mnuchin said that he and the leaders of the House and Senate of the United States Congress agreed that TikTok's parent company must be forced to sell TikTok or ban the application in the United States.
Because it is possible to divulge the information of American users, either ban or force them to sell, which is the logic of the American government to a Chinese company.
Citing network security experts, CNN reported that the accusation of TikTok threatening the security of the United States is largely theoretical, and there is no evidence that China has used TikTok's user data.
A report on the website of Atlantic Monthly, entitled "Why the United States is Afraid of TikTok", said that the fear of the United States government for TikTok was all based on speculation, without any substantive evidence.
The author of the article said that when he interviewed Josh Holly, a US senator who strongly advocated the threat of TikTok, Holly repeatedly emphasized that TikTok was a "company from China", as if "this reason is enough".
Not only the media, but also many American users launched the "Save TikTok"（