America Bans TikTok and Growing Tensions With China
The United States’ current Biden administration, in April 2023, banned the online Chinese social media platform TikTok due to the growing tensions between the world’s only two superpowers, China and the United States.
TikTok has one year to sell the company to another organisation.
If it doesn’t, TikTok assets within the United States will be seized by Google, and Apple stores will have to immediately remove TikTok from the online app stores or face legal action.
Since China started reforming its economy and experienced an economic miracle over the last 30 years, it was inevitable that the United States and communist China would eventually clash.
The 2023 TikTok ban is the first missile fired between these two great powers as they compete for international geopolitical power worldwide, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region, between the Indian Sea and the Sea of China.
The United States of America is banning the Chinese platform TikTok because of the fear on the part of the American government that China will use that platform to influence the minds of Americans.
America is a liberal democracy and a pro-freedom of speech nation.
