![]() The CCP Isn’t Just Monitoring Chinese Citizens ![]() This technocratic fusion should concern us all. Further, when one realizes that the Chinese government has passed a law ordering big tech companies like Tencent, owner of WeChat, and ByteDance Ltd, owner of TikTok, to share all the data they collect, the Commerce Department’s decision appears to be both misguided and unwise.Ĭommenting on the recent ruling by the CCP, The Wall Street Journal’s Linling Wei wrote, “The complex new web of laws and regulations around sharing digital records is being driven by the huge growth in data held by China’s tech giants-and a belief that the government should be able to access it.” With this new law, the line between the Chinese government and China’s biggest tech firms has been blurred-if such a line ever existed at all. Nine months on, is the US Commerce Department’s decision to stop trying to ban these apps a wise one?Ĭonsidering the ways in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) violates basic human rights, the answer appears to be no. Its efforts, however, never came to fruition. In September of last year, the Trump administration had made a concerted effort to block both of these Chinese-owned apps. On Monday, June 21, the United States Commerce Department opted to rescind executive orders signed by President Trump that had targeted TikTok and WeChat, two of the most popular-and most controversial-apps in the world today.
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