tiktok is under scrutiny in the us last week the biden administration reportedly demanded that tiktoks chinese owner bytedance sell the app or face a possible ban in the country china has now responded to those reports saying that it would strongly oppose any forced sale of tiktokif the news is true china will firmly oppose it shu jueting a spokesperson of chinas commerce ministry was quoted as saying she added that a sale or divestiture of tiktok would involve exporting technology and had to be approved by the chinese government suggesting that china could block any effort by bytedance to divest tiktok the spokesperson also warned that reported efforts by the us government would severely undermine global investors confidence in the ustiktok ceo testimonythe comments came a few hours before tiktok chief executive officer shou zi chew testified at a congressional hearing wherein he was grilled over national security concerns and user datarecently chew gave four reasons why tiktok should not be banned in the us tiktok has more than 150 million users in the us and it is claimed to have 7000 american employeesprevious ban attemptsthis is not the first time that the us has attempted to ban the app the trump administration also tried to force the sale of tiktok in 2020 but china revised a list of protected technologies the revision reportedly made it mandatory for bytedance to obtain permission from the chinese government to sell the app to an american buyer software giant was reportedly then planning to buy tiktok last year tiktok proposed project texas to allay us national security concerns the proposal mentioned that tiktok would remain owned by bytedance but all user data generated by us users will be saved on domestic servers operated and run by texasbased oracle only oracle and usbased tiktok employees would have access to the accounts and data of us users tiktok saidfacebooktwitterlinkedinusa wants to grab anything successful into their kitty china wont allow thatend of article10910131298799128