The United States also wants to force TikTok to sell its business. Expert: The United States creates difficulties or further aggravates them

Source: Global Times [Li Zhun, a special correspondent of Global Times in the United States, Zhao Jue, a reporter of Global Times] was asked by then President Trump to divest TikTok, a social media business in the United States, in 2020, and has received similar threats again recently.
On the 26th, the Wall Street Journal of the United States quoted insiders as saying that, out of concern about TikTok's "security problems", some officials of the Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) are trying to force the app to sell its American business to ensure that "China cannot use the app for spying and political influence".
In this regard, the experts interviewed by the Global Times on the 27th believed that the problems TikTok faced mainly stemmed from China US relations, rather than commercial aspects.
A series of recent developments show that the United States' difficulties with TikTok may be further intensified.
The Wall Street Journal said that the proposal to force TikTok to sell its US business was put forward in the discussion of CFIUS.
People familiar with the matter said that representatives of the U.S.
Department of Defense and the Department of Justice in CFIUS supported the forced sale, because only by separating TikTok from its Chinese parent company and ByteDance, headquartered in Beijing, could the so-called risk of the Chinese government acquiring TikTok data or influencing videos watched by Americans on TikTok be solved.
It is reported that CFIUS has negotiated with TikTok on how to isolate the data and operation of the application from the Chinese government for more than two years.
CFIUS experts said that the committee could make recommendations to US President Biden, and the President had the right to ask TikTok's Chinese parent company to sell or divest this business so that it could continue to operate in the US.
TikTok said in a statement on the 26th that the company "has been cooperating with the U.S.
government for more than two years to eliminate all reasonable national security concerns of the United States about TikTok".
This is not the first time TikTok faces the risk of being forced to sell its business in the United States.
In August 2020, then US President Trump signed an executive order requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok's business in the US within 90 days.
Trump declared at that time that the company may take actions that "threaten the national security of the United States".
Subsequently, ByteDance sued the US government.
In June 2021, the current President Biden lifted the previous ban on TikTok, but at the same time requested the US Department of Commerce to evaluate applications related to "foreign competitors" and "take action as appropriate".
ByteDance has always denied that TikTok has data security problems.
In addition, Reuters reported that TikTok had migrated the data information of American users to Oracle's servers in June this year to eliminate the concerns of American regulators about data integrity.
However, American politicians still frequently hype that TikTok has a so-called "national security" problem recently.
According to US media, Christopher Ray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), recently announced that the FBI was worried that TikTok might be used by the Chinese government to collect data.
On the 15th of this month, the US Senate voted to pass a law