TikTok deal must benefit US and provide total security, says Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump on August 13 reportedly said that any deal to sell Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to an American company must substantially benefit nation and provide ‘total security’. Trump’s statement comes after he issued an executive order banning American citizens and businesses from doing any transaction with TikTok, its parent company ByteDance Ltd., and messaging app WeChat. 

Trump ordered vague bans on dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok and WeChat, saying that y are a threat to US national security, foreign policy and ecomy. executive order signed last week would be taking effect in September. 

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Meanwhile, as per reports, TikTok and its US employees are planning to take Trump’s ministration to court over sweeping order to ban popular video app. Mike Godwin, who is an Internet policy lawyer representing employees, reportedly said that it is unclear what order will mean for app’s 100 million US users. He furr also ded that it’s also unclear if it will make it illegal for Chinese-owned company to pay its roughly 1,500 workers in US. 

Executive order signed within ‘due process’ 

TikTok, in a reported statement, said that it was ‘shocked’ by recent order as it was issued without any due process. company ted that Fifth and 14th Amendments to U.S. Constitution safeguard life, liberty and property from arbitrary government action lacking ‘due process of law’. While Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok, in a potential sale that’s being forced under Trump’s threat ban, TikTok reportedly said that it spent nearly a year to eng in ‘good faith’ with US government to dress its concerns. 

company said, “What we encountered inste was that ministration paid attention to facts, dictated terms of an agreement without going through standard legal processes, and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses”. 

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Chinese Foreign Ministry, on or hand, said that executive order signed by US President Donald Trump to force a sale of TikTok within 45 days is “sheer gangster logic” and “daylight robbery”. Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said in an interview that Trump ministration is taking actions against Chinese video-sharing social networking service on basis of presumption of guilt.

Le asserted that TikTik is simply a platform for American public to showcase ir talent and spre joy and has thing to do with national security. He accused US government of ganging up like “tigers preying on a little rabbit” to suppress private Chinese company. He said that whole world is “watching with contempt looting and robbery by United States”.

(Inputs & Im: AP) 

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