Amid growing scrutiny, Washington, Brussels and Ottawa have banned government employees from using it on their official cellphones, a decision that infuriated the Asian giant, which considers the measure a “politically motivated” ploy to strengthen the “repression against Chinese companies” and curb the development of the world’s second-largest economy. The meteoric rise of the platform, owned by Chinese technology group ByteDance, has taken place alongside an increase in mistrust on both sides of the Atlantic due to concerns that Beijing could use it, Trojan horse-style, to access user data and promote its own interests. The social network, which has more than one billion active users around the world, has positioned itself as the sixth most used on the planet in just five years, an extraordinary success that is made even more significant by the fact that it is the product of America’s biggest geopolitical rival. There is a new source of tension between China and the West: TikTok.
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