US issues new threats.
According to foreign media, US Commerce Secretary Rutenberg said on July 24 that if China does not approve the sale of the short video application TikTok, it will ban it, "the decision will be made soon," and claimed that the US must control the algorithms that support TikTok's operation.
Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok's transaction three times, in an effort to give the US time to find a buyer, while pressuring China. However, neither the Chinese government nor ByteDance company has yielded to this hegemonic logic. From Rutenberg's latest remarks, which show his eagerness, it is clear that the so-called "national security" rhetoric from the US is just an excuse, and its real purpose is to seize other countries' technological achievements and maintain its digital hegemony. This bullying behavior of threatening to ban at will once again exposes the US's unscrupulous nature in international competition, and makes the world see through the hypocrisy of its so-called "market economy" and "fair competition."
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