Source: Bloomberg
Author: Sarah Zheng, Josh xiao
The United States may ban TIKTOK, marking its data security strategy into a new stage, which may eventually affect all aspects of electric vehicles to healthcare and reshape the trade relations between the world's two major economies.
President Joe Bayeng's bill signed last week forced TIKTOK's Chinese parent company by byte beating to strip it away, aiming to prevent Beijing from obtaining this video sharing application (APP)data.This bill draws on China's approach and regards data abuse as a national security threat.
Although there have been more restrictions on American companies in China for a long time, officials also welcomes those companies that comply with their regulations and agree to store data locally.Musk's Tesla is a typical example: Bloomberg News reported on Monday that Tesla will cooperate with Baidu's lane -level map information cooperation in order to launch its so -called fully autonomous driving (FSD) function in China -- These data are only open to a few Chinese companies.
Caitlin Chin-Rothmann, a researcher at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that the United States now seems to be abandoning the "open Internet that is not restricted to data flow and turns to selective splitting based on national security concerns."
"Although Tiktok's current difficult situation is that its popularity and scope of data collection, it is not the first one or the last Chinese company to be targeted at by American members," she said."Technical decoupling -or at least reduce the dependence on the other party -the route seems to be more and more popular with both parties."
Data security issues have once again become the core of more and more competition in the United States and China, just at the time of Bayeng with Donald Trump again in November.At that time, the Trump administration tried to prevent other countries from purchasing Huawei's 5G network equipment.Later, Trump proposed the concept of "cleaning the network" to prevent Beijing from obtaining sensitive personal data from Americans.
Although Biden did not stretch his hand so long, in recent months, the conflict of data has been intensified.China has been relying on its data security law promulgated in 2021 to strengthen supervision of various fields from agriculture to geography, and the United States has proposed concerns about logistics networks, autonomous driving and drones.
"I don't know when it is a head, unless you want China to be softened, which is obviously impossible," ROGIER CREEMERS, assistant professor of Leiden University, said: "As long as risks exist, we always have it.The reason is not enough risk, so you need to go further. "
"AI era
New technology is creating new risks.Modern equipment has become more and more intelligent, and has obtained unprecedented data generation and transmission capabilities.Car collecting information about drivers and passengers, medical equipment can analyze and process personal medical care information.Washing machines, port cranes, and even clothes can be connected to some remote server.The coming era of artificial intelligence (AI) will only enhance these capabilities.
U.S. law born of Tiktok will be suitable for all "foreign opponent -controlled apps" that US President believes to constitute national security risks.This may change the Chinese platform -such as Tencent's WeChat and Pinduoduo's e -commerce TEMU -operating territory.SHEIN, which originated in China, now sets up headquarters in Singapore, but given that it has a huge supply chain network in China, it also faces Congress review.
To make the Tiktok case more complicated, members of the members are worried about China's ability to influence US public opinion.TIKTOK mobilized user petition last month to oppose the potential ban, showing the influence on Americans.
"Foreign governments can and are using various social media, instant messaging APPs and websites to try to influence American public opinion," said Milton Mueller, a professor of network security policies who specializes in network security policies."In this regard, Tiktok is no different from Twitter, Meta or YouTube."
In addition to the Science and Technology APP, US members also reviewed the data security risks of other Chinese companies.After warning the spy and damage risks of Zhenhua Heavy Industries, in February this year, the Bayeng government vowed to invest more than $ 20 billion in port safety.
US members have urged the Pentagon to prohibit Internet cars using Chinese technology to enter the US military base, such as Hesai Technology's Lidar remote sensing technology.After being included in the list of Chinese military enterprises by the US Department of Defense, the world's largest LIDAR supplier threatened to take legal operations.
In view of the high US tariffs, Chinese electric vehicle stars like BYD have no existence in the US market, but the Biden government has been considering restricting Chinese manufacturers to transport automobiles and components to the United States through third countries such as Mexico.
