TikTok is not helping U.S. China relations [Video]

TikTok is staring down a ban in the U.S. that is fast approaching on Jan. 19. The fate of the social media platform is as ambiguous as the U.S.- China relationship. 

Ambassador Nick Burns thinks TikTok and other Chinese-founded social media apps amount to a strategy to undermine America from within as the relationship between the two countries is, “very competitive, very challenging, very contentious,” he told FOX Business. 

“I do think it is a strategy. You know, China is a very significant global power. They want to overtake the United States in power. They want to diminish us” he said. 

Burns also noted that the Chinese Communist Party runs a massive propaganda machine which censors incoming information about freedoms in the United States and distorts our problems, ultimately making the U.S. look bad. 

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As for TikTok, Burns explained it is …