America against China: The most expensive divorce of all time

The conflict between the United States and China, to economic, political and social influence around the world is escalating and is discharged in the first instance primarily technological. After the American government has made international successfully pressure the Chinese network equipment supplier Huawei, its customers and suppliers, go to work on you now, especially among young people very popular, such as widely used Video App Tiktok: in the Meantime, the Internet has made group Microsoft officially known to negotiate with the Chinese owner of byte dance about to buy Tiktok and operate in the future – not only in America but also in Canada, new Zealand and Australia.

Whether Tiktok has a future in the United States, is not entirely secured. However, this seems at least possible (again), after President Donald Trump had announced on the weekend, the App simply prohibit.

Huawei and Tiktok are just the beginning

The government in Washington argued that, as always in the recent past, if you are going against Chinese companies, with security concerns: authorities and, above all, the Communist leadership in Beijing could gain by the far Eastern services, and Hardware, ultimately, access to information about countless Americans.

Public evidence of a serious misuse of user data is not available, however, in the case of Tiktok so far. If, moreover, just Tiktok is a large potential risk, is security professionals, is quite controversial – or, at least, in the sense of the freedom of expression and competition in America, for example, would have been enough soldiers, employees of the Federal authorities, and employees of the diplomatic service, easy to say not to use the App.

Updated Date: 03 August 2020, 10:20