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“We resolutely oppose this wrong action,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said at a regular press briefing on Tuesday (2/28). The US government’s ban on the video-sharing app exposes Washington’s own insecurities and constitutes an abuse of state power. “How afraid can the United States, the world’s number one superpower, be of the young people’s favorite app?” he said. -issued devices, setting a deadline for complying with a ban ordered by the US Congress.Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young in a memorandum instructed government agencies within 30 days to remove and prohibit the installation of applications on computing devices owned or operated by agencies, and prohibit Internet traffic from such devices to applications. The ban does not apply to businesses in the United States that are not affiliated with the federal government, nor to the millions of citizens who use apps that are wildly popular. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), R La law recently introduced in Congress would “effectively ban TikTok” in the country. “Congress must not censor entire platforms and deny Americans the constitutional right to free speech and expression,” Jenna Leventoff, senior policy adviser for the ACLU, said in a statement. “We have the right to use TikTok and other platforms to exchange our thoughts, ideas and opinions with people across the country and around the world,” he said. Owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, TikTok has become a political target over fears the app could be abused for espionage or propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party. A law signed by US President Joe Biden last month bans the use of TikTok on government-issued devices. He also banned the use of TikTok in the US House of Representatives and Senate. National security concerns over alleged Chinese espionage have risen over the past month after a Chinese balloon flew through US airspace and was eventually shot down. The Canadian government has also previously banned TikTok from all phones and other devices, citing concerns about Beijing’s degree of access to user data. Effective Tuesday, “The TikTok app will be removed from government-issued mobile devices. Users of these devices will also be prevented from downloading the app in the future,” the government said in a statement. The European Commission has also banned the application of its equipment. TikTok has repeatedly denied accusations that it shared data or ceded control to the Chinese government. TikTok’s drastic rise from a niche video-sharing app to a global social media giant has garnered a lot of attention, especially when it comes to its relationship with China. The company was forced to admit that ByteDance employees in China accessed Americans’ data, but still denied passing any personal information to Chinese authorities. TikTok moved to allay US fears by announcing in June 2022 that it would store all US user data on US-based servers. The bans haven’t stopped TikTok’s growth. “With over a billion active users, it’s the sixth most used social platform in the world,” according to marketing agency We Are Social. Although it lags behind trios like Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram that have long dominated Meta, its youth growth has far outpaced its rivals.(PSC)