BEIJING: The United States ambassador to China said on Friday (Mar 15) that Beijing's position on a potential TikTok ban in the US was "supremely ironic" given the ruling Communist Party's ce
US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns speaks during a climate finance roundtable discussion at the US Embassy in Beijing on Jul 8, 2023. Burns said on Mar 15, 2024, that Beijing' position on a potential TikTok ban in the US was "supremely ironic". China has sharply criticised the approval, slamming what it called Washington's"bandit" mentality and accusing lawmakers of"unjustly suppressing foreign companies".
"I find it supremely ironic that government officials here in China ... have been criticising the US for the debate we're currently having on TikTok," Burns said during an online seminar held by the East-West Center, a US-based research organisation. China's government tightly controls the spread of information online and scrubs out social media content it deems politically sensitive.
TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance also runs a separate version of the app inside China called Douyin.
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