"The United States is looking to TikTok," said Donald Trump when speaking with reporters in the White House. According to the US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin TikTok, the social network managed by the Chinese company ByteDance, "is currently under scrutiny and there will be recommendations soon". The threat of the White House in recent days had been to put TikTok on the 'black list' of companies banned in the USA, such as Huawei.
China "has no interest in interfering and will not interfere in the US elections": Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, reiterating Beijing's position and accusing the United States of aiming to repress Chinese companies. The allegations of intrusion against TikTok are "just a hoot," added Wang, after a group of American senators from the Republican Party pointed the finger at TikTok, the app developed by the Chinese group Beijing ByteDance Technology, on fears of interference in the election campaign for the presidential elections in November.