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Additional details by PolitiFact. Specific to TikTok, Bytedance owns TikTok. The question is whether Bytedance is controlled or will do what Chinese government wants. Take the conclusion for what you will.
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The below Politico article is kinda weird. If Tiktok was not owned/controlled by the Chinese government, why would the Chinese diplomats come out and try stop this legislation?
Just a moment...
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Chinese diplomats are quietly meeting with Hill staffers about TikTok
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The embassy also sought to claim the company as Chinese, the staffers said, despite TikTok’s public efforts to distance itself from the origin of its founders. TikTok, unlike ByteDance, is based in Singapore and the United States. In one of the meetings, the embassy argued that the legislation amounted to a forced data transfer of a Chinese company, according to the House staffer.
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Oblivious hypocrisy. Plenty of western companies are treated differently in China.
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In the other, the embassy argued that the effort was not fair to a Chinese company because the U.S. would not treat a company with a different national origin the same way, according to the Senate staffer.
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And this is puzzling, apparently Tiktok knows nothing about this.
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TikTok said in a statement that the embassy meetings were “news to us, and it’s absurd to ask us to comment on anonymous sources we know nothing about.”
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