China Hits Back at USA Over 'Smash and Grab' TikTok Strategy, AI Lawsuit Against Apple

While it is seemingly staring at a potential ban in USA as well, the Chinese government is taking an offensive approach to combat American strong-arming, as per a recent editorial published by Global Times, the English newspaper of China’s government-backed publication, People’s Daily.

The TikTok-USA saga, and the recent Global Times editorial in particular, signifies what may become the start of the Chinese government hitting back at international pressures.

The Chinese government has stated that USA is using its technological superiority and its relations with its allies to create an unfavourable and biased environment of business for Chinese companies.

The latter has filed yet another lawsuit against Apple, one of the biggest American (and global) companies, accusing it of stealing bits from its patents on voice recognition technologies and using them with Apple’s digital assistant, Siri.

While this means that Huawei will likely drop back in ranking once the pandemic normalises, it also goes on to show China’s might in the global technology industry – in turn hitting back at USA that even after being banned from conducting business with US companies, China is threatening to emerge as a potential global strength that can be large enough without bowing down to the dominant market players