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Potential Ban of TikTok in the US: a Condemnation of China's Influence?

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I) What is Happening with TikTok in the US?

News Topic

On September 16th, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit examined a bill signed by Joe Biden aimed at forcing TikTok to be sold to a non Chinese company by the beginning of 2025. If the social media platform is not sold by then, it will no longer exist in the country.

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The USA is one of the countries with the most TikTok active users,along with Indonesia and Brazil

Number of American TikTok active users in 2024

+120M

5th behind Whatsapp, Instagram, Youtube and Facebook ( in terms of monthly active users )

TikTok made $9.4 billion in total revenue in 2022. That amounts to almost double the revenue made the year before ($4.7 billion).

Other Key Data about TikTok

5th

TikTok's ranking among other social networks

$9.4B

Tik tok’s revenue in 2022

What do you think is the reason for this important decision ?

source : App Ape
60% are female, 40% are male. 60% are between the ages of 16-24.

Distribution of Tiktok users in the US as of May 2024 by age (in %)

The bill was signed by Joe Biden

Timeline

2020

Donald Trump requested the ban of the platform

Dec. 2022

A bipartisan bill to ban TikTok in the U.S. was first proposed

Feb. 2024

TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew was pressed by Senators in the American Congress

Apr. 2024

Sept. 2024

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit examined the bill

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Are you associated with the Chinese communist party ?

What do you think about this video ?

What do you want to see first?

TikTok's reaction

The reaction of the American people

TikTok's Reaction

Message asking users to "stop a Tiktok shutdown" and to call members of the Congress

On the day the bill was signed TikTok published a message on the social media platform X :

A sale isn’t legally, commercially or technically feasible by the Jan. 19, 2025, deadline posed by the law

A ban would violate Americans’ free speech rights (1st amendment)

The government’s national security concerns are “speculative”

Do you know or want to guess what the arguments of TikTok are ?

The Reaction of the American People

Tiktokers’ Opinion on the Matter

Believe that the federal government made the wrong decision.

Worried because it would cause the end of their principal source of income or visibility

The end of a crucial resource for people to share information

Public Opinion on the Matter

The global public opinion seems to have changed overtime.

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How long is the case expected to last?

The judges were asked to issue their ruling by Dec. 6, based on the Jan. 19 deadline the law lays out for TikTok.It’s not clear whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, or when it might do so. However, it seems highly possible in view of the stakes.

II) How does this case reflect the complex relationship between China and the US?

What do you know about Huntington’s theory?

He separates the world's nations into eight groups according to their cultural similarities. His main argument is that culture shapes the patterns of conflict, bringing nations together, or breaking them apart. His theory highlights that all nations fight for survival and economic power.

What do you know about Huntington’s theory?

Tiktok symbolizes the shifting balance in the global technological landscape

TikTok, although owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has claimed that US user data is stored in the USA.

2.Struggle for technological dominance
1.Conflict over national security

Who controls the data, information and digital platforms that shape citizens' daily lives?

In the case of TikTok, the fact that Americans had tried to force ByteDance to sell it to an American company is an example of how trade and technology wars between the two countries take many forms

4.Digital sovereignty and cultural influence
3.Economic and technological warfare
Do you think TikTok could really be banned from the US?

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Conlusion

The tensions surrounding TikTok are part of a wider geopolitical context.The TikTok scandal thus becomes a battleground in this wider war of influence.Technology is used as a strategic lever to assert the superiority of one model over the other.The U.S. seems concerned in keeping its hegemony, which is important to them since they are popular worldwide as a symbol of democracy and freedom.

We can only hope that the East and the West find mutual understanding. If not, the tensions in U.S.-China relations could intensify and threaten the world order.

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