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After India, America has also given a big blow to China. The US House has passed a bill to ban the Chinese app TikTok. The US House has given a strong message to China by passing this bill banning TikTok with an overwhelming majority. In politically divided Washington, there was amazing bipartisan unity in the matter of banning TikTok. This can be gauged from the fact that the MPs voted 352 in favor of the proposed law and only 65 against it.
The US House of Representatives has shocked China by approving this bill with an overwhelming majority on Wednesday. This US decision will force TikTok to separate from its Chinese owner or be banned from the United States. The law threatens to be a major blow to the video-sharing app, which has surged in popularity around the world while stoking nervousness about its Chinese ownership and its potential subservience to the Communist Party in Beijing.
White House gave this statement
The White House has said Joe Biden would sign the bill, officially known as the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Enemy Controlled Applications Act,” if it lands on the president’s desk. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is required to sell the app within 180 days or it will be banned from Apple and Google app stores in the United States. It also gives the President the power to declare other applications a national security threat if they are under the control of a country considered hostile to the United States.
Washington’s resurgent campaign against TikTok came as a surprise to the company, the Wall Street Journal reported, adding that TikTok executives were reassured when Biden joined the app as part of his campaign for a second term last month. Went. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is in Washington trying to gather support to stop the bill.
