China says US 'abusing power' by squeezing TikTok


A visitor to an Apple store wears a t-shirt promoting Tik Tok in Beijing. Beijing on Monday (sept 28, 2020) accused the Trump administration of abusing "national power" by trying to ban TikTok, as a federal court gave the video app's US operations a stay of execution. - AP

BEIJING, Sept 28, (AFP): Beijing on Monday accused the Trump administration of abusing "national power" by trying to ban TikTok, as a federal court gave the video app's US operations a stay of execution.

A US government order had sought to ban new downloads of the Chinese-owned app from midnight (0400 GMT Monday) -- but allow use of TikTok until Nov 12, when all use would be blocked.

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