The US Senate has approved a controversial landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in America.
It gives TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, six months to sell its stake or the app will be blocked in the United States.
The bill will now be handed over to US President, Joe Biden, who has vowed to sign it into law as soon as it reaches his desk.
If that happens, ByteDance will have to seek approval from Chinese officials to complete a forced sale, which Beijing has vowed to oppose.
The measure was passed as part of a package of four bills which also included military aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and other US partners in the Indo- Pacific.
It got widespread support from lawmakers with 79 Senators voting for it and 18 voting against it.
Maybe? I doubt it, at least not yet… EU is decidedly more reserved in being anti-China and still postures itself less aggressively than the US. There’s a reason that the EU is full of Chinese cars and the US is not, for example.
However, EU already decided long ago and especially in the past few years, e.g. in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, to join the US in maintaining the old US-dominant world order, rather than work with the BRICS+ countries to build a new one. So at some point, if EU is serious about being pro-US, they will have to actually oppose China, not just pay lip service.