TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
As someone from the third world this leaves a very bad feeling if it happens. I do expect it runs into legal hurdles before that.<p>Neither Apple nor Google have found TikTok problematic enough to delist them from their app stores. Neither is there charges that TikTok may have broken US laws.<p>Banning something which hasn&#x27;t broken US laws, on arbitrary grounds shouldn&#x27;t be possible.<p>The President shouldn&#x27;t have authority to ban anything at all let alone an app available through privately operated app stores.<p>Also dictating which apps an individual can install&#x2F;not install shouldn&#x27;t be the job of the Federal Government.<p>All indication is that the president does not have authority to execute an outright ban of the thing.<p>Also what alarms me the veil of secrecy on the procedings. The proceeding of the CFIUS should be made public in this regard.<p>At this point US is seemingly acting like a dictatorship with very less transparency.<p>Policies and decisions should be debated and argued before they are executed, not merely justified after the fact. That&#x27;s what US and a few oher democracies have turned to doing in recent years.<p>Ultimately I feel that it is US who has been more to blame (contrary to much of Western media coverage) for the deteriorating US-China relationship, and drumming up the chorus for a new coldwar. Chinese policy seems to have not significantly changed in the last 5 years towards the US, but on the other hand US seemed ever more keen and eger to pursue a hostile attitude towards China.<p>With the pandemic and with genral economic malice affecting much of the world, I don&#x27;t think a path of increasing hostility and conflict is what the world needs.