US anti China legislators call on the US to ban Tiktok, the Foreign Ministry: this American politician is doomed to be swept into the garbage heap of history

Source: Global Times [Global Times Comprehensive Report] US Senator Rubio, who has always held an anti China position, has begun to manipulate the issue again.
According to Reuters on the 17th, Rubio called on President Biden to ban TikTok, a short video app, in the United States.
Zhao Lijian, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, refuted at a regular press conference on the 18th that the American politician was doomed to be swept into the garbage heap of history for his tireless anti China remarks in pursuit of personal political self-interest, regardless of facts.
Rubio announced in a statement on the 17th that the Chinese government now holds one of the three seats on the board of directors of Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd., claiming that "the Biden government can no longer pretend that TikTok is not subject to China", and that "today it was clear that TikTok poses a serious threat to personal privacy and the national security of the United States".
According to the BBC, TikTok has a large number of users in the Americas and Europe, with an estimated 700 million active users every month.
At present, about 80 million Americans use TikTok every month.
Former President Trump of the United States issued an executive order on the pretext of threatening national security, prohibiting TikTok from downloading and updating in the United States, and required TikTok to either sell its American business or close its operations.
In June this year, the Biden government revoked the above administrative order, but at the same time, it issued a new administrative order, according to which the U.S.
Department of Commerce will review applications designed and developed within the "jurisdiction of foreign competitors", including those in China.
In his statement, Rubio declared, "We must establish a standard framework, and require high-risk foreign applications to meet these standards before being allowed to run on U.S.
telecommunications networks and equipment." Rubio had previously expressed similar ideas, and last year proposed a law requiring that TikTok and other overseas "high-risk" applications be labeled with warning labels, and that the preservation of U.S.
data be localized.
Reuters quoted a statement from TikTok saying that "TikTok is led by an executive team located in the United States and Singapore", "the Chinese subsidiary of ByteDance Co., Ltd.
mentioned by (Rubio) has no ownership of TikTok".
According to Reuters reports and information from Global Times reporters on the business query platform Tianyan, NetInvest Chinese (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
recently held 1% of the shares of ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd., while NetInvest Chinese was described by Reuters as owned by three Chinese state institutions.
A representative of ByteDance told Reuters that Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd.
"is only related to some video and information platforms of ByteDance in the Chinese market, and holds some licenses required for operation according to local laws".
Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference on the 18th that he suggested that the so-called "elected representatives" of the US side should do more practical things for the interests of their own people, rather than concentrate on political manipulation to suppress enterprises in other countries.
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