While we wait Tik Tok’s departure from the States, the commentary on Donald Trumps action against the developer of the platform has not subsided. Chinese ambassador to US Cui Tiankai is dumbfounded on the allegation the President has piled on China, of it not giving the same equal opportunity to American tech firms in doing business. To this the ambassador responded:

“It’s not fair to make such allegations without giving any evidence and to accuse China of not giving American companies a level playing field while at the same time they themselves are denying Chinese companies such a level playing field. This is extremely unfair,”

IS there any truth on those allegations, recall back 2009 when Facebook was banned, the Great China Firewall blocks many American website from being accessed in the country including Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, Netflix, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, The New York Times and PornHub, yes you read right. How can some of these be national threat, Wikipedia? Where is the level playing field, who initiated the blocks, was there justification?

Cui added that the United States should stop making groundless allegations against Chinese companies like TikTok and give them a level playing field, does he know the law of reciprocation?

He further goes on to claim that there isn’t any evidence that any (American) company giving such information to the Chinese government that they are being restricted.

Companies like Tik Tok, Huawei, Alibaba may or may not be giving access to any of their data to the Chinese government but under the law these companies can be complied to provide information if national threat is concerned or if Beijing asks. Its as simple as that. (The Chinese people are the most monitored people on the planet.)

“Very often we hear complaints here that we don’t give a level playing field to American companies. But more and more, I believe we should complain Chinese companies are not having a level playing field here,” he goes on.

Cui should realise its China that played that game, to come back now and accuse others of acting indiscriminately over Chinese companies is akin to throwing stones from a glass house.