And now TikTok. After Huawei, the telecoms giant, the Chinese social network with 100 million American users is concentrating the heavy fire of Washington against Beijing. The video-sharing application popular with young people is the latest front in the “trade war” which, since spring 2018, has opposed the two leading economic powers on the planet.
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The epithet "commercial" seems more and more unsuitable as the confrontation has intensified and multiplied in various theaters in recent weeks. That they are far, the triumphant messages of the tweeter-in-chief of the White House welcoming, last January, the conclusion of the so-called "phase 1" agreement with China. This " deal " was to seal a truce in the escalation of punitive tariffs. The Chinese government pledged to increase its purchases of American goods by 172 billion dollars in 2020, including 37 billion agricultural products, to the great satisfaction
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