{"id":183287,"date":"2019-12-11T01:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=264211"},"modified":"2019-12-11T01:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:23:23","slug":"us-officials-blast-tiktok-for-stalling-on-china-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/11\/us-officials-blast-tiktok-for-stalling-on-china-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"US officials blast TikTok for stalling on China talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tSocial media app company TikTok faced fresh criticism after CEO Alex Zhu delayed meetings with US politicians meant to quell fears the app is subject to Chinese government influence.<\/p>\n<p>Zhu was set to meet with two of TikTok&#8217;s biggest critics, Senators Marsha Blackburn and Josh Hawley, this week to address concerns related to censorship and privacy of US users on the platform stemming from TikTok&#8217;s China connection.<\/p>\n<p>While the company is headquartered in the US, parent ByteDance is based in China.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to The Washington Post, TikTok said it had &#8220;no higher priority than ensuring&#8221; politicians questions were tackled &#8220;fully and transparently&#8221; but added Zhu\u2019s meetings would be postponed until after the festive period, claiming this would result in more meaningful talks.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn and Hawley questioned the explanation in Twitter posts, with the latter suggesting TikTok received a \u201ccall from Beijing\u201d about the planned meetings.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok previously insisted it is not influenced by any overseas government [1], and noted data from US users is stored within the country, with none of the information subject to Chinese law.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/apps-home-banner\/tiktok-hits-back\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media app company TikTok faced fresh criticism after CEO Alex Zhu delayed meetings with &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/us-officials-blast-tiktok-for-stalling-on-china-talks\/\">US officials blast TikTok for stalling on China talks<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/11\/us-officials-blast-tiktok-for-stalling-on-china-talks\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3376,3604,2,2047,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-LGf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183290,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183287\/revisions\/183290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}