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How TikTok found itself hostage to the China-US economic war

2020-09-30T18:24:08.992Z


BIG STORY - Faced with the success of the Chinese social network in the United States, Donald Trump demanded that it be sold to American groups. The Chinese are resisting.


Frenzied choreography.

Sketches of rare efficiency.

Teenage girls playing back songs of the moment.

This is what we find on TikTok, a ten-second video sharing application.

Since its inception in 2017, it has spread at high speed in the smartphones of young people around the world.

As on YouTube and Instagram, small celebrities, gathering around them thousands of admirers, emerge there.

The influence of TikTok is such that record companies use it to launch the careers of their young artists.

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How Facebook intrigued to oust TikTok from the United States

TikTok is a real

success story

.

And above all, for the first time, an application from China has succeeded in establishing itself in Western phones.

The service was indeed created in 2017 by the Chinese group ByteDance.

It is precisely this ancestry that strongly annoyed Donald Trump.

This summer, the US president simply threatened to end his presence in the United States.

Therefore,

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Source: lefigaro

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