The United States has “legitimate national security concerns” over TikTok, said National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby.
“The president has been very clear. We have legitimate national security concerns over this particular application, and we’re banning it,” Kirby told The Epoch Times’s sister media NTD. “It is banned on government devices, that’s not going to change.”
He added that Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the interagency panel tasked with reviewing foreign transactions, is in the process of reviewing the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform.
“We need to let that process complete and finish before we make any more decisions,” he said….