{"id":71509,"date":"2024-03-15T13:18:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/us-ambassador-says-beijing-stance-on-tiktok-ban-supremely-ironic\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:18:59","slug":"us-ambassador-says-beijing-stance-on-tiktok-ban-supremely-ironic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/us-ambassador-says-beijing-stance-on-tiktok-ban-supremely-ironic\/","title":{"rendered":"US ambassador says Beijing stance on TikTok ban \u2018supremely ironic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The US ambassador to China said on Friday that Beijing\u2019s position on a potential TikTok ban in the United States was \u201csupremely ironic\u201d given the ruling Communist Party\u2019s censorship of online platforms within its borders.<\/p>\n<p>The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1821358\">approved a bill<\/a> on Wednesday that would force the wildly popular short-video app to break with its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban.<\/p>\n<p>China has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1821534\/china-blasts-uss-bandit-mentality-after-passage-of-tiktok-ban-bill\">sharply criticised<\/a> the approval, slamming what it called Washington\u2019s \u201cbandit\u201d mentality and accusing lawmakers of \u201cunjustly suppressing foreign companies\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1821556\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>US ambassador Nicholas Burns offered a rebuke on Friday, saying Beijing\u2019s stance was unjustified given it blocks many Western web platforms from operating in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it supremely ironic that government officials here in China \u2026 have been criticising the United States for the debate we\u2019re currently having on TikTok,\u201d Burns said during an online seminar held by the East-West Centre, a US-based research organisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey won\u2019t even let TikTok be available to 1.4 billion Chinese,\u201d he said in response to a question about the avenues for American public diplomacy in China.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government tightly controls the spread of information online and scrubs out social media content it deems politically sensitive. Many Western platforms, including Google, Facebook and Instagram, are blocked from operating in the country.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok\u2019s Chinese parent company ByteDance also runs a separate version of the app inside China called Douyin.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"the-real-irony\" href=\"#the-real-irony\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>\u2018The real irony\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>China hit back at Burns\u2019s comments on Friday, saying the US stance on the app was \u201cthe real irony\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1754935\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Asked about the ambassador\u2019s seminar, foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the US \u201cis making every effort to use national power to suppress TikTok\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA country that prides itself on free speech and claims to be a free-market economy is willing to use the power of the state to crack down on specific companies,\u201d Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the real irony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Western governments have voiced concern about TikTok\u2019s soaring popularity, alleging that the app\u2019s ownership makes it subservient to Beijing \u2014 a claim TikTok denies.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which has also been criticised by TikTok creators and users, is expected to face a tougher challenge in the US Senate. The White House has indicated that President Joe Biden would sign the bill into law if it reaches his desk.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US ambassador to China said on Friday that Beijing\u2019s position on a potential TikTok ban in the United States was \u201csupremely ironic\u201d given the ruling Communist Party\u2019s censorship of online platforms within its borders. The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force the wildly popular short-video app to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/03\/15171250e5601d4.png?r=171650","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}