On the ground of "security", the US officials mentioned again the forced sale of TikTok US business

On December 26 local time, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing insiders, that some US government officials were considering asking ByteDance to sell the US business of TikTok, its short video application, for the reason of so-called "security concerns".
The insiders of the screenshot of the Wall Street Journal reported that the officials who proposed the "forced sale" included representatives of the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Justice, who claimed in a discussion of the CFIUS that concerns about data security could only be resolved by separating TikTok from its owner's ByteDance.
Observer.com contacted ByteDance about this matter, and no response has been received as of press release.
Lisa Monaco, the US Deputy Secretary of Justice, refused to discuss TikTok specifically in an interview, but she mentioned the so-called "interests and values".
Cfius experts affiliated to the US Department of Finance claim that President Biden has the right to ask TikTok's Chinese parent company to sell or divest this business so that it can continue to operate in the US, and Cfius can make recommendations to Biden.
However, according to people familiar with the matter, the US Treasury is worried that the order of "forced sale" may be overturned in court.
TikTok disclosed in a statement on behalf of TikTok on December 26 local time that the company "has been cooperating with the U.S.
government for more than two years to address all reasonable national security concerns of the United States about TikTok".
A White House spokesman did not comment on the case being discussed by Cfius.
In recent years, the United States frequently used the so-called "national security" as a pretext to suppress TikTok.
Former President Trump of the United States tried to force TikTok to be placed under the control of the United States, but failed.
Later, he issued an administrative order in 2020 prohibiting TikTok from operating in the United States, but he lost in a series of court proceedings against the measure.
At that time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China pointed out that the US side, without any evidence, generalized the concept of national security, abused the power of the state, unjustifiably suppressed certain non US enterprises, violated the principles of market economy, and violated the principles of openness, transparency and non discrimination of the WTO, which was a blatant act of hegemony.
After the current President Biden took office, he revoked Trump's administrative order to ban TikTok, saying that after a successful legal challenge, the order could not be implemented.
He also ordered the US Department of Commerce to review the "security problems" brought about by relevant applications.
Recently, TikTok has once again faced many policy risks from the United States.
In mid December, several legislators from the Republican and Democratic parties of the United States jointly proposed a new bill to ban TikTok across the United States.
A TikTok spokesman expressed "uneasiness" about this and pointed out that the US side's so-called ban was politically motivated and would not help promote the US national security.
In addition, several states in the United States are also imposing restrictions on TikTok.
For example, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered all state government agencies to ban the use of TikTo on state government electronic devices