The popular Chinese-owned app has recently allowed 'toxic, offensive, false and superstitious' content on its platform, the country's ministry representative said in a statement.
The ban underscores growing worries that China could use the Beijing-based company to harvest users' data to advance its political agenda, undermining Western security interests.
CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony before Congress did little to assuage US worries over TikTok and added fresh momentum to lawmakers' calls to ban the platform nationwide.
In his written testimony, CEO Shou Zi Chew said parent company ByteDance is not an 'agent of China' or any other country nor is it controlled by any govt or state entity.
TikTok has come under increasing scrutiny due to fears that user data from the app owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance could end up in the hands of the Chinese govt.
The move follows the introduction of a new US legislation that would allow the White House to ban TikTok or other foreign-based technologies if they pose a national security risk.
Owned by ByteDance, Tiktok has more than 100 million US users & legislators have raised fears that its US user data could be passed on to Chinese govt.
Rather than attempting to overthrow the current system, Chinese commentary positions the country as both defending existing frameworks and guiding their evolution.
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