After the ban on Tik Tok in the US, the next number could be that of the legendary tech company Alibaba. US President Donald Trump has given similar signs. A question was asked in the press conference whether the government is going to clamp down on some more Chinese owned companies like Alibaba. To this, Trump said, “Well, we are exploring more possibilities. Yes, it can happen.”
Trump has been piling pressure on Chinese-owned companies, such as by vowing to ban short-video app TikTok from the United States. The United States ordered its Chinese owner ByteDance on Friday to divest the US operations of TikTok within 90 days, the latest effort to ramp up pressure over concerns about the safety of the personal data it handles.
In regards to Alibaba, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at a press conference earlier this month in Washington that the company needs to ensure Americans’ personal information could not be obtained through Chinese cloud software.
“We’re protecting Americans’ most sensitive personal information and our businesses’ most valuable intellectual property – including COVID vaccine research – from being accessed on cloud-based systems run by companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, China Mobile, China Telecom, and Tencent,” Pompeo said at the time.