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        <title><![CDATA[Growing number of nations consider TikTok ban over China ties]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President&#8217;s Trump looming TikTok ban may only be the beginning of the popular video app&#8217;s headaches, as a growing number of nations are becoming suspicious of its ties to China.</p><p>US ally Australia is <strong>reportedly looking at TikTok&#8217;s Beijing-based parent company</strong> ByteDance to see whether it poses a security threat to the country&#8217;s 25 million citizens, with&nbsp;Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying the government was scrutinizing the relationship &#8220;very closely.&#8221;</p><p>India, where TikTok was once massively popular with young members of its population, <strong>banned the app</strong> in June amid a military standoff between the two countries. India&#8217;s information technology ministry issued a statement saying that it had received reports that TikTok and other Chinese apps were &#8220;stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users&#8217; data.&#8221;</p><p>Next-door neighbor Pakistan, meanwhile, in late July warned TikTok that it could not continue hosting&nbsp;“immoral, obscene, and vulgar content,” and gave the company a &#8220;<strong>final warning</strong>&#8221; to &#8220;put in place a comprehensive mechanism&#8221; to moderate its content.</p><p>Japan&#8217;s government last week <strong>began looking</strong> into banning TikTok on its shores over concerns about Beijing using the data that it collects.</p><p>TikTok has said it has never provided user data to China and that it would not do so if asked, saying in a statement that it has “no higher priority than promoting a safe app experience that protects our users’ privacy.”</p><p>But TikTok&#8217;s biggest problem remains in the United States — where Trump has told the company that it must come to an agreement to sell at least its US business to &#8220;a very American company&#8221; by Sept. 15 or be banned.</p><p><strong>Trump told reporters</strong> at the White House this week that he’s personally involved in brokering a potential deal with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.</p><p>ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming <strong>told employees</strong> in an email that a forced sale is &#8220;unreasonable,&#8221; and said the US wants to see TikTok fail.</p><p>“[A sale] is not their goal, or even what they want,” he wrote. “Their real objective is to achieve a comprehensive ban.”</p>]]></content:encoded>
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