Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday that the United States "has never found any evidence of TikTok posing a threat to US national security." The US Energy and Commerce Committee last week advanced a bill seeking to ban the Chinese social media platform unless it is sold to a non-Chinese business, with the House set to vote on the legislation later today. In addition, the US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines claimed China could use TikTok to try to influence the upcoming US presidential election.
Wang added that Washington's attempts to ban the app "when one could not succeed in fair competition disrupts the normal operation of businesses, undermines the confidence of international investors in the investment in government, sabotages the normal economic and trade order in the world and will eventually backfire on the US itself."
