On the morning of the 9th local time, US President Biden issued an executive order to revoke the previous government's ban on Chinese applications such as TikTok and WeChat. But at the same time, Biden instructed the commerce secretary to investigate apps linked to foreign "adversaries" to determine whether it poses a risk to U.S. data privacy and national security.
Most of the US media mentioned in the report that although the Biden administration did not name foreign "opponents", the implications against China were obvious. Compared with Trump's ban, Biden's new executive order is not so much a change of course as a makeover, and may even expand the scope of the crackdown on Chinese application software.
Combined with the Biden administration's expansion of the "list of Chinese companies involved in the military" just last week, prohibiting U.S. entities from investing in 59 Chinese companies purportedly linked to the defense or surveillance technology industries, it is easier to understand this statement in the US media. Regardless of whether the new executive order targets China or not, the current US administration has turned a blind eye to the "real hammer" of Facebook and other domestic companies infringing on the privacy of user data, but has picked the bones in the eggs of foreign companies and launched a presumption of guilt investigation, which in itself is an abuse of state power, discrimination and even suppression of non-US business entities.
The Biden administration has been desperately hoping to learn the lessons of the Trump administration, and one of the most important lessons to be learned in exchanges with China is that the "ban order" will not only kill Chinese companies, but also "if it can't kill you, it will make you stronger." Although we expect the United States to create an open, fair and just business environment for foreign enterprises, even if there are more "riot operations" for foreign enterprises, in the face of the strength of excellent enterprises, it will eventually be "a fierce operation, fixing your eyes on the pestle in situ". (Text/Yi Kun)
Source: Reference News Network