The Tiktok agreement tests the integrity of the ＂national security＂ in the United S

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On the grounds of national security, the U.S. government forced the Chinese social media bytes to choose a choice between the sale of its US business and stopping.The period on September 20 is approaching, and Tiktok's disputes with the US government have recently made new progress.Reuters earlier quoted the news that the nail bone wins in the bidding Tiktok business. However, the Chinese English official media CGTN refers to that byte beating will not be sold to it, and the message is quite contradictory.On Monday (14th), the news began to be bright. Although Oracle originally won the cooperation with Tiktok, it was not done in the way of selling all US business as expected.The Tiktok problem is essentially a game between China and the United States. At present, this bargaining plan is thrown back to the US government. This will test whether the United States claims to be a national security reasons and whether it can stand.

Tiktok has reached an agreement with Oracle, but the form is not as expected to sell the business, but to respond to the US concerns about national security through several aspects.In the plan, Oracle will become TIKTOK's trusted technology providers (Trusted Technology Provider). It is estimated that it includes reorganization ownership and business operations, but it is not fully sold in the US business.On the other hand, Tiktok will set the headquarters in the United States. As the name suggests, it will become an American company and promise to create 20,000 positions for the United States.The US Minister of Finance, Steven Mnuchin, has confirmed that he has received the relevant plan during CNBC's interviews, and carefully stated that he must be reviewed by the overseas investment committee (CIFUS) and national security.

Different from the expectations of sale

In terms of plan content, Tiktok made a concession to respond to the United States' questions about national security, which should be difficult to be very picky.If the reason for the United States to crack down on Tiktok is really concerned about the national security issues that disclose US user information to the Chinese government, it should agree with this cooperation content.However, byte beating does not completely escape the ownership of Tiktok.And according to TIKTOK, the company will respect the Chinese government's previous provisions of selling algorithms. It is clearly considered to be the most valuable core algorithm of TIKTOK to be sold to Oracle.The development of this area is different from the expectations of the original sales business.

Now it is undoubtedly that China throws the problem to the United States to observe its reaction.If the United States promised this transaction, of course, it was decent, and the loss of byte beating can be described as the minimum, and the core algorithm will not be sold.But if the White House does not agree, it seems to tear his face for this, implying that the so -called national security reasons are only solid.The key to the incident is whether the US government is worried about the leakage of US users' data, or is it unwilling to use Chinese technology companies to make a non -needed blow?

The US government seems to have a lot of arguments for this.A faction headed by Mnuchin is worried that if Tiktok is too tough, it is not just Tiktok itself, it is also likely that companies' trust in the US government will greatly reduce.The U.S. government has always preached that it is a free economy, but at this time, the government has conducted market intervention to fight against other countries. In addition to becoming a handicapped, it is more likely to make other companies cool down and long -term confidence in investing in the United States.The eagle led by trade consultant Peter Navarro seems to think that all methods should use all methods to combat Chinese companies in the United States.According to news, Navarro even thought that the Tiktok business should be forced to close, and it should not be given a chance to sell.

At this stage, it is difficult to predict what the U.S. government will eventually have a resolution. However, the agreement between Tiktok and Oracle is undoubtedly a chess to the US government.