Singapore Ambassador to the United States, Lu Deyao: If you ask for excessive aspects

CEO Zhou, CEO of Tiktok, was questioned in the U.S. Congress and related to the Chinese government in the U.S. Congress.Essence

At the end of January, the Judicial Committee of the US Congress held a hearing, accusing social media companies accusing social media companies that have not effectively responded to the harmful impact of social media platforms on children.During the period, Republican Senator Tom Cotton repeatedly asked Zhou's capital.

Lu Deyao answered questions from the Hong Kong South China Morning Post at the meeting of Washington International Trade Association on Tuesday (February 13) at the meeting of Washington International Trade Association. If such inquiries are too much, "may destroy the impression and understanding of the United States in different regions of the world, not just justIn Asia, it is not necessarily only in Singapore. "

At the hearing, although Zhou's capital had repeatedly stated that it was a Singaporean, Columbia repeatedly asked if he had a Singapore passport, whether he had the nationality of other countries, whether he had applied for the U.S. nationality, whether he had any contact with the CCP, and related to the CCP.Video is mad in social media.Some netizens said that this question reflects the ignorance of American officials and regards all Chinese people as Chinese.

According to the South China Morning Post, Lu Deyao said that Singapore looked at Caton and Zhou's capital tensions from two perspectives.First, American politicians try to appease domestic audiences at the election period; the second is that the United States has a lot of data on the control of Chinese citizens and may involve sensitive information about Chinese natives and out -of -sea companies, and this concern has been deeply rooted.

TIKTOK is a short video application owned by ByTedance in China's large Internet technology company. It has more than 150 million monthly active users in the United States.

US officials have doubts about this application and believe that it may help the Chinese government get US user data.In 2020, Tiktok decided to move his headquarters to Singapore.

Lu Deyao called on the sensitivity of the United States in national security and the overall image that the United States wanted to show the world to find a "clever balance".

Lu Deyao also said that Columbia once visited Singapore and Singapore highly respect for Kodon.