'Abusing state power': China lashes out at US over TikTok bans

US government bans on Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok reveal Washington's own insecurities and are an abuse of state power, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has said. China, though, has itself long blocked a large list of foreign social media platforms and messaging apps, including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The US government "has been overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress other countries' companies", Mao Ning said at a daily briefing on Tuesday. "How unsure of itself can the US, the world's top superpower, be to fear a young person's favourite app to such…