China News Service, February 13. According to CNN, after US President Biden made his campaign debut on the TikTok platform, the White House stated on the 12th local time that the US government had no long-standing security concerns about TikTok. Change.
Image source: Screenshot from social platform TikTok
On February 11, local time, US President Biden officially joined the social platform TikTok. Campaign advisers said the account is run by Team Biden-Harris and will post content regularly as it does on other social media outlets such as Instagram.
The team released its first video on TikTok that day. In this approximately 30-second video, Biden answered a series of questions about who would win the Super Bowl championship in the short and fast way preferred by young people.
At the White House press conference held on the 12th local time, reporters repeatedly raised issues related to TikTok.
Image source: Screenshot of the White House website
A reporter asked, "Why does the president allow his campaign to be conducted on TikTok?" US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby suggested that he consult the Biden campaign team.
Image source: Screenshot of the White House website
Kirby said that from the National Security Council's perspective, "the national security concerns about the use of TikTok on government devices have not changed and the policy remains in effect."
When a reporter asked "whether there has been any discussion between the White House and the campaign team about whether it is appropriate to use TikTok," Kirby replied "no comment."
Image source: Screenshot of the White House website
The reporter asked Kirby to explain what the U.S. government's "national security concerns" were about TikTok. Kirby said: "It has not been approved for use on government equipment, and that is still the case today. I want to emphasize again that I don't want to get too involved in national security. "There are technical reasons behind this, but it does relate to concerns about data retention and the possible misuse of that data and private information by foreign actors."
Later, White House press secretary Karina Jean-Pierre said she had no prior knowledge of the campaign’s plan to launch a TikTok account. "I'm not communicating with the campaign about any strategy or anything like that," she said.
Previously, the United States continued to hype the so-called TikTok as a "threat to U.S. national security." A spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs once pointed out that the United States has so far not produced any evidence to prove that TikTok threatens the national security of the United States, but has repeatedly made presumptions of guilt and unreasonably suppressed relevant companies. This is an overarching concept of national security and the abuse of state power to suppress other countries. Corporate hegemony and domineering behavior. What the United States does goes against the will of the people and damages the credibility of the United States. It is unpopular. China urges the United States to earnestly respect the principles of market economy and fair competition, stop unreasonably suppressing companies from other countries, and provide an open, fair, just and non-discriminatory environment for companies from all countries to invest and operate in the United States.