https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-china-us-ban-canada-eu-fdaad1ac8494815262491077356c2984

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. government bans on Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok reveal Washington’s own insecurities and are an abuse of state power, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday.

The U.S. government “has been overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress other countries’ companies," Mao Ning said at a daily briefing. “How unsure of itself can the U.S., the world’s top superpower, be to fear a favorite young person's favorite app to such a degree?”