A law to ban the Chinese social network in the United States opens a new chapter in the debate between freedom and security. The U.S.
considers TikTok a threat to its security and is willing to treat it as such. The aggressive protectionist movement comes after years of warnings in Washington about the connections between Bytedance and the Beijing government. Europe is no stranger to the global rivalry between the US and China, even less so since the outbreak of the Ukrainian war. The argument of strategic security, however, challenges all Western democracies.