American Secretary of State Pompeo testified before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee (July 30,2020).
U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo said Sunday the U.S. President Trump will soon take action against Chinese software companies that provide data directly to Beijing's government and pose risks to U.S. national security.
"President Trump has said' Enough'... We're going to solve this problem, so he will take action in the next few days on a range of national security risks associated with Chinese Communist Party software ," Pompeo told Fox News Sunday Morning Futures. "
Trump told journalist on air force one on friday that he would issue an order as early as saturday to ban international TikTok. on social media platforms
During the past few months, u.s. officials have repeatedly said that TikTok personal data it processes under the beijing-based chinese software company bytehopping poses security risks to the u.s.
"It's a real privacy issue for the American people ," Pompeo said. For a long time, the United States simply said ,'God, if we had fun or if a company could make money from it, we would allow this to happen. "
Two insider on Saturday told Reuters that, according to a recent proposal, byte beat is willing to spin off TikTok U.S. business to Microsoft in order to reach a deal with the White House. A number of presidential allies supported the proposal, including Republican senator Lindsay Graham.
US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said in another interview on Sunday that the Committee on Foreign Investment, which reviews the impact of foreign commercial transactions on national security, is studying the matter.
